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Departure
On the roll, make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: On the roll the aircraft drifted 42 ft off the centreline, and heading then varied by 1.7° through the first climb segment; drifting off centreline on the roll like this usually carries a heading variation into the climb, which in turn usually carries extra bank into the second climb segment, seen here as 1.5°.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level and track straight through the climb
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
Read more in How to Taxi AnywhereStart to finish · 17 stages, 13 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 79 kt with 5.0° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 391 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 8,333 ft of runway left; then climbing at 560 fpm on average to 391 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.
Plan view the roll down the 11,223 ft runway.
Rolled from 832 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 35 ft at the widest, and lifted off 35 ft right. Airborne 18 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Low from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm (up to 290 ft under), then back on it to the threshold.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to 0.5 nm, then drifted 70 ft right between 0.5 and 0.3 nm, then inside the band from 0.3 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to −17 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
Very good landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 239° at 4 kt · 4 kt head · 0 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 59 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 6 s, an average deceleration of 0.33 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 996 ft in, close to the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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.
From 40 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 100 fpm before coming down at 420 fpm to touch. The nose went down 0.6° 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 5,000 ft of the 11,223 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 8 ft 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 996 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at RPVM Mactan Cebu International Airport was a swift process, taking less than 1 minute and covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its departure roll on runway 04R, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 80 kt. The takeoff distance of 2,127 ft accounted for only 19% of the available runway length. Local weather conditions at the time of departure included a temperature of 76 °F and a gentle tailwind of 4 kt.
As the aircraft climbed out of RPVM Mactan Cebu International Airport, it began a series of enroute climbs and descents, navigating through the local airspace. The first enroute climb, from 478 ft to 4,722 ft, was completed in 4 minutes and covered a distance of 7 nm. This was followed by a descent from 4,838 ft to 1,110 ft, a decrease of 3,728 ft in 5 minutes and covering 10 nm. The aircraft then underwent another enroute climb, from 1,063 ft to 3,134 ft, before descending to 94 ft asl. The final approach to runway 22L was initiated from the north east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 226.0 ° at 1 nm and 71 ft agl.
The aircraft executed a go-around at 43 ft agl before successfully landing on runway 22L. The touchdown speed of 61 kt was good, and the touchdown distance of 990 ft was within acceptable limits. The total landing distance of 1,310 ft accounted for only 12% of the available runway length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking 6 minutes and covering a distance of 1 nm. The total flight distance was 35 nm, with a flight time of 21 minutes and a fuel consumption of 23 lbs.
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