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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 3° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 8.1° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Apply steady, continuous back pressure through the flare to arrest the sink smoothly and hold the normal profile, rather than letting it drift.
What happened: The flare did not hold its target profile, with the sink most arrested at 0.4 ft, and this flight then touched down at 480 fpm of sink - a firm arrival. An unsettled flare profile like this usually carries through to a firmer touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smooth, steadily decreasing sink rate through the flare to touchdown.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: off the runway's 3° glideslope and off the centreline.
At the 500 ft gate: off the runway's 3° glideslope and off the centreline.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 9,173 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2,040 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in question involved a C-750 aircraft departing from runway 18L at ROAH Naha Airport / JASDF Naha Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. Taxiing from the parking area to the runway took 8 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. Upon reaching the runway, the aircraft began its departure roll at 144 knots.
During takeoff, the aircraft lifted off with a 26% usage of the runway's 2,567 feet length. The local weather conditions consisted of a temperature of 87 degrees Fahrenheit, a wind speed of 5 knots at 180 degrees, a slight crosswind of 0 knots, and a moderate headwind of 5 knots. As the aircraft gained altitude, it began to climb from 1,026 feet above sea level to 44,552 feet, an increase of 43,525 feet in just 18 minutes.
Upon reaching the desired altitude, the aircraft levelled out and continued its enroute climb for another segment, lasting 41 minutes and covering a distance of 356 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its first descent, which took 21 minutes to complete from a height of 44,483 feet above sea level to 4,093 feet.
The second level cruise segment began approximately 6 miles northwest of Pasuquin in the Ilocos region of the Philippines. This segment lasted 5 minutes, covering a short distance of 13 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another descent phase, dropping from 4,123 feet to 2,563 feet in merely 2 minutes. The subsequent level cruise phase saw the aircraft flying at a low altitude for 8 minutes, covering a negligible distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
As the aircraft approached RPLI Laoag International Airport in the Ilocos region, it began its final approach to runway 01, flying at a heading of 6.0 degrees and an altitude of 1,828 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft touched down on the runway, with a touchdown point that was 351 feet beyond the designated touchdown zone.
The flight's touchdown speed was recorded to be 126 knots, which was faster than desired, and the touchdown rate was also higher than intended at -604 feet per minute. The aircraft's runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned, being off-center by 43 feet. Additionally, the runway rollout alignment was similarly misaligned, deviating by 57 feet from the centerline.
The total flight distance covered was 640 nautical miles, taking a total of 108 minutes. The flight utilized a total of 3,238 pounds of fuel. After landing, the aircraft took just 2 minutes to taxi to the parking area, covering a short distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
Aircraft C750 successfully landed at RPLI Laoag International Airport, but the approach and landing had several areas for improvement. Initially, the aircraft was approaching the runway from the south at a heading of 6.0° and at an altitude of 1,828 ft agl (above ground level), a distance of 3 nm (nautical miles) from the runway. The pilot then successfully landed on runway 01, but the threshold height was excessively high, coming in at 138 ft agl rather than the target height.
In terms of speed, the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 129 kt (knots). The aircraft then touched down on the runway 351 ft beyond the designated touchdown zone. The touchdown speed of 126 kt was relatively fast, and the touchdown rate of -604 fpm (feet per minute) was heavy. Additionally, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 43 ft from the centreline. This indicates that the pilot may have been having difficulty aligning the aircraft with the centre of the runway during the final stages of the approach.
The local weather conditions on the day of the landing were relatively calm, with a temperature of 77°F and winds blowing at 6 kt from a direction of 70°. This would have meant that there was a crosswind component of 5 kt, but there was also some assistance from a small headwind of 2 kt. Nonetheless, the aircraft successfully cleared the runway without incident, rolling out to a total distance of 3,695 ft, which is 40% of the runway's length of 9,173 ft.
However, the pilot's performance during the rollout phase left something to be desired, misaligning by 57 ft from the centreline of the runway. This would suggest that the pilot may have had some difficulty bringing the aircraft under control in the immediate aftermath of the touch-down, requiring some effort to stabilize the aircraft and bring it in line with the runway.
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