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Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 288 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 288 fpm next time
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 145 kt, 7 kt below the 152 kt target, and lifted off at 152 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 3.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 177 kt, 7 kt under its 184 kt target.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 953 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,355 m of runway left; gear up at 12 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,120 fpm on average to 953 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,301 m runway.
Rolled from 272 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 m left. Airborne 48 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.7 to 0.4 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.4 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 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 ft below 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 17× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then 13 m left of it from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.7 nm (up to +36 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 330° at 7 kt · 7 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 128 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.34 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 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 19 ft. Touched down 425 m in, 120 m past 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 480 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at 9 ft, then back up to 290 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 3,803 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8.8 m left of the centreline and drifted to 13 m left on 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 425 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 288 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 09 at VABB Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was on runway 09, using 1,611 m (49 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 145 kt. Local weather was 34 °C with wind 2 kt from 030°, giving a 2 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 24 seconds, averaging 2,009 fpm and reaching 184 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,020 ft asl to 30,321 ft asl in 26 minutes, covering 190 nm, starting 1 mile north of Mumbai.
Cruise was level between 30,600 ft asl and 39,000 ft asl for 285 minutes, covering 2,431 nm, beginning 10 miles north of Jalna.
Descent began from 38,981 ft asl to 1,314 ft asl in 26 minutes, covering 195 nm, starting 37 miles north of ZSTX Tunxi International Airport Huangshan.
Final approach to runway 34L at ZSPD Shanghai Pudong International Airport descended from 1,361 ft agl to 48 ft agl in 102 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 2,935 ft agl at 266 kt; final flap position 8 was selected at 1,095 ft agl at 159 kt.
Landing on runway 34L, runway length 3,803 m, had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly above target at 140 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 425 m down the runway at 132 kt, a little fast, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 288 fpm. Touchdown position was misaligned by 8.8 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 781 m (21 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 13.8 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 28 °C with wind 7 kt from 330°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and a 7 kt head-wind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 2,824 nm in 344 minutes and used 15,794 kg of fuel.
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