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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 6.1 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 558 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 582 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,848 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,848 m of the 3,501 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 862 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 15 minutes and covered a distance of 6 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, then departed from runway 21R at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, with a takeoff distance of 1,538 meters, which was 59% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 168 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it encountered local weather conditions of 37°C temperature and a wind of 19 knots at 230°. The crosswind was 7 knots, and the headwind was 18 knots. The enroute climb started overhead the airport, with the aircraft ascending from 1,659 feet above sea level to 27,165 feet above sea level, an increase of 25,505 feet in 15 minutes, covering a distance of 78 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise, starting 3 miles west of Schaller Airport in Findlay, Ohio, and lasted for 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile. However, this was short-lived, as the aircraft began another climb, ascending from 27,165 feet to 36,686 feet, an increase of 9,521 feet in 7 minutes, covering 45 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued to climb and level off at various points, with a notable level cruise starting 4 miles west of Rosewood, Ohio, lasting 2 minutes, and covering 12 nautical miles. Another climb started 3 miles southwest of Christiansburg, Ohio, with the aircraft ascending from 37,007 feet to 39,897 feet, an increase of 2,889 feet in 3 minutes, covering 28 nautical miles.
The longest level cruise of the flight started 1 mile northeast of Red Stewart Airfield in Waynesville, Ohio, and lasted for 119 minutes, covering 843 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, ascending from 40,286 feet to 41,314 feet, an increase of 1,028 feet in 2 minutes, covering 11 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it entered a level cruise starting at a specific latitude and longitude, lasting 21 minutes, and covering 155 nautical miles. However, the flight then began its descent, starting 72 miles west of Las Clavellinas Airport in Cuba, with the aircraft descending from 41,370 feet to 1,301 feet, a decrease of 40,069 feet in 25 minutes, covering 125 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 12R at Cancun International Airport was from the northwest, with the aircraft heading 124.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,273 feet above ground level. The landing on the runway, which was 3,501 meters long, was slightly above target in terms of threshold speed, but the touchdown point was 376 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed was a little fast at 130 knots, and the touchdown rate was hard at -426 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was excessively misaligned by 41.7 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was significantly misaligned by 43.7 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 29°C temperature.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,308 nautical miles, taking 206 minutes, and the aircraft used 8,074 kilograms of fuel.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft successfully landed at MMUN Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún, but the landing was not without its issues. The final approach to runway 12R was initiated from the north-west, heading 124.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,273 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft touched down on the runway, but the touchdown point was 376 meters beyond the designated touchdown zone, indicating a slight deviation from the intended landing spot.
The touchdown speed of 130 knots was slightly above the target speed, which could have contributed to the hard touchdown rate of -426 feet per minute (fpm). The threshold height at 87 feet agl was significantly above the target, suggesting that the aircraft may have been higher than expected during the final approach. The threshold speed was also slightly above the target at 138 knots.
The runway touchdown position was excessively misaligned by 41.7 meters from the centerline, indicating that the aircraft was not aligned properly with the runway during the landing. This misalignment could have been due to a variety of factors, including pilot error or issues with the aircraft's navigation systems.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were hot, with a temperature of 29°C. This could have affected the aircraft's performance and the pilots' ability to control the aircraft during the landing.
The total landing distance was 1,697 meters, which is 48% of the runway length. This is a relatively short landing distance, but it could have been shorter if the aircraft had been aligned properly with the runway and had touched down at a slower speed. The runway rollout alignment was also significantly misaligned by 43.7 meters from the centerline, which could have made it difficult for the pilots to control the aircraft during the rollout phase.
Overall, while the landing was successful, there were several issues that need to be addressed to improve the safety and efficiency of the landing. These issues include improving the alignment of the aircraft with the runway, reducing the touchdown speed, and addressing any issues with the aircraft's navigation systems.
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