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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 11 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Keep increasing back pressure smoothly after the sink arrests at 4.8 ft, holding that attitude firmly all the way to touchdown.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 4.8 ft, but 111 fpm of sink came back before touchdown, and sink returning like this usually carries through into a bounce at touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: steady, continuously decreasing sink held through the flare and into touchdown.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 111 kt with 3.6° of pitch.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 1,147 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 649 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,720 fpm on average to 1,147 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,504 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 9.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 9.2 m left, in 7 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 40 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 60 ft above the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 45× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 8 m off the centreline.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 51 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 31 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −10 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 102 kt.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Great landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 060° at 13 kt · 13 kt head · 1 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 71 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 17 ft, 33 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 306 m in, close to the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 370 fpm at 15 ft to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,420 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.7 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 1.8 m of it down the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 306 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.17 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Cockspur PH100, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport, taking 7 minutes to cover a distance of 2 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 01, with the aircraft lifting off at a speed of 112 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 29 °C, with a wind speed of 13 knots blowing from 330 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 8 knots and a headwind of 11 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile north of Curundu. The climb took place from an initial altitude of 1,222 feet above sea level to a maximum altitude of 40,349 feet, an increase of 39,126 feet in 26 minutes, covering a distance of 119 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise phase began 81 miles north of Isla Grande, lasting 35 minutes and covering 375 nautical miles.
The enroute descent phase started 67 miles south of Rocky Point, Jamaica, and took the aircraft from an altitude of 40,000 feet to 1,289 feet, a decrease of 38,711 feet in 26 minutes, covering a distance of 137 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 07 at Sangster International Airport was made from the southwest, heading 65.0 degrees at an altitude of 1,275 feet above ground level, 4 nautical miles from the runway.
The landing took place on runway 07, which had a length of 2,420 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 92 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 305 meters, and the touchdown speed was 82 knots, which was also good. The touchdown rate was smooth at -112 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 28 °C, with a wind speed of 14 knots blowing from 60 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 13 knots.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking 3 minutes to cover a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 639 nautical miles, taking 98 minutes, and the aircraft used 593 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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