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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 125 kt, on the 125 kt target, and lifted off at 135 kt 2.1 s later, the nose coming up at 5.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 168 kt, 15 kt under its 183 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 850 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,596 m of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,080 fpm on average to 850 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 3,000 m runway.
Rolled from 430 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.3 m right. Airborne 39 % 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.
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 3.3 nm, about 1,120 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the speed.
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 70 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 6 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.3 nm (up to +50 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
The flare held the target profile well. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.5° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 196 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 068° at 6 kt · 5 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 117 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.23 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.
Began the flare at 40 ft, 172 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 196 m in, 109 m short of 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 760 fpm at the flare to 310 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.4° 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 2,128 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.2 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 196 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 310 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-600 taxied from the parking area to runway 12 at MUCL Vilo Acuña International Airport in a duration of 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 12, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 1,186 m, representing 40 % of the runway, and achieved liftoff at 136 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 31 °C, wind 4 kt from 118°, with a 0 kt crosswind component and a 4 kt headwind.
The climb commenced overhead MUCL Vilo Acuña International Airport, rising from 950 ft asl to 40,971 ft asl, an increase of 40,022 ft achieved in 44 minutes while covering 337 nm.
Level cruise began 7 miles north of San Luis, Provincia de Santiago de Cuba, and persisted for 60 minutes, during which 486 nm were flown.
Descent operations started 24 miles northwest of TJBQ Rafael Hernández International Airport, Aguadilla, with the aircraft descending from 40,847 ft asl to 2,812 ft asl, a loss of 38,035 ft in 18 minutes and a distance of 125 nm.
A subsequent level cruise segment was initiated 2 miles northeast of Culebra, Puerto Rico, lasting 3 minutes and covering 12 nm.
The final approach to runway 10 at TIST Cyril E. King Airport was conducted from the west, on a heading of 87.0° at 4 nm and 1,284 ft agl.
Landing on runway 10, which is 2,128 m long, featured a threshold speed of 123 kt and a touchdown distance of 198 m. The aircraft touched down at 118 kt with a firm rate of minus 305 fpm; alignment on touchdown was perfect. Local weather reported a temperature of 35 °C, wind 6 kt from 68°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 5 kt headwind. The total landing distance recorded was 643 m, representing 30 % of the runway.
Runway rollout proceeded with perfect alignment, completing the landing phase within the recorded distance.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 964 nm, took 130 minutes, and consumed 5,715 kg of fuel.
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