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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 14 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Wait for the normal flare band and the correct speed before raising the nose, rather than starting the flare at 53 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 53 ft, 8.4 ft above the normal band, and the touchdown followed at 305 fpm. Starting the flare this early usually carries through to a firmer arrival than a flare begun in the normal band.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: hold the flare start within the normal flare band
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.
Rotated at 133 kt, on the 135 kt target, and lifted off at 139 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 4.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 153 kt, 23 kt under its 176 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 870 ft.
Reached 35 ft 299 m past the runway end; gear up at 25 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,870 fpm on average to 870 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 4,026 m runway.
Rolled from 2,688 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 14 m at the widest, and lifted off 14 m left, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 96 % of the way down the runway, past 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 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 8× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 45 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 131 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
The flare wandered off the target profile. The flare began at 53 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 401 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 128 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 200° at 6 kt · 2 kt tail · 6 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 134 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 40 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 1,758 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 53 ft, 122 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 401 m in, 97 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 1,758 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 590 fpm at the flare to 300 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.7° 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 1,758 m of the 3,292 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 11 m left on the rollout, back to 0.6 m left by the end.
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 401 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 305 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-700 departed runway 16 at UBBB Heydar Aliyev International Airport. The take-off roll used 3,840 m, which is 95 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 133 kt. Local weather at departure was 24 °C with wind 11 kt from 129°, giving a 7 kt crosswind and a 9 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 25 seconds, averaging 1,623 fpm and reaching 152 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 905 ft asl to 27,968 ft asl in 11 minutes, covering 65 nm and passing overhead Yeni Suraxani. Level cruise was held at 28,000 ft asl for 8 minutes, covering 56 nm, beginning about 11 nm north-east of Qobustan.
Descent began at 27,974 ft asl and proceeded to 2,354 ft asl in 16 minutes, covering 69 nm, starting roughly 6 nm north-east of UBGE Bygyr Airport Geoktschai. The final approach to runway 30 at UBBG Ganja International Airport descended from 1,332 ft agl to 77 ft agl in 99 seconds.
Stabilisation checks were performed at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway and were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 5,108 ft agl with a speed of 171 kt, and final flap position 7 was selected at 4,288 ft agl with a speed of 168 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 30. Threshold speed was 130 kt and touchdown speed was 128 kt, both recorded as good. The flare was described as good and started early. Touchdown occurred 401 m down the runway with a firm rate of minus 305 fpm. Alignment at touchdown was very good and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,689 m, representing 51 % of the runway length. Runway rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 12.8 m.
Local weather at landing was 22 °C with wind 7 kt from 199°, giving a 7 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind. The total flight covered 200 nm in 43 minutes and consumed 2,019 kg of fuel.
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