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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 16 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
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.
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 5,674 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,674 ft of the 7,793 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2,623 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This flight began with a 26-minute taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, then departed from runway 12R at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, with a takeoff distance of 3,501 feet, which equated to 35% of the runway length. The plane lifted off at a speed of 152 knots.
The local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 83°F, with a wind speed of 6 knots coming from a direction of 166°. There was a 4-knot crosswind and a 4-knot headwind. As the flight took off, the aircraft began to climb at an altitude that increased from 1,732 feet above sea level to 32,236 feet above sea level over a distance of 107 nautical miles in 17 minutes.
After reaching the cruising altitude, the flight continued to climb, with the enroute level cruise starting 7 miles south of Hawkins, Wisconsin. This phase of the flight lasted 95 minutes and covered a distance of 697 nautical miles. The crew then initiated the enroute descent 5 miles south-east of CDD3 Ste-Agnès-de-Dundee Airport in Quebec, Canada. The aircraft descended from 32,151 feet to 6,143 feet in 12 minutes, decreasing its altitude by 26,008 feet and covering 74 nautical miles.
Following this descent, another brief enroute level cruise phase started 3 miles east of VT01 Teal Farm Airport in Vermont, United States. This lasted for only 5 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The crew then initiated the final descent from overhead VT49 Angus Airways Waitsfield in Vermont. In this phase, the aircraft descended from 5,992 feet to 1,689 feet in 7 minutes, decreasing its altitude by 4,302 feet and covering 17 nautical miles.
The flight's final approach commenced from the south-east, heading in a direction of 311.0°, and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles at an altitude of 1,351 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 33 at Burlington International Airport, with a runway length of 7,793 feet, proved to be slightly tricky, as the threshold height was slightly above target, and the threshold speed was well above target. The touchdown point was 1,264 feet beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 138 knots.
The total landing distance was 5,414 feet, accounting for 69% of the runway. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 28 feet. During the runway rollout, the aircraft was again misaligned from the centreline by 33 feet. Taxiing to the parking from the runway took 14 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile.
Throughout the flight, the aircraft consumed 14,618 pounds of fuel, covering a total distance of 910 nautical miles. The overall duration of the flight was 172 minutes.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft successfully landed on runway 33 at KBTV Burlington International Airport, with a score of 87.8%. The approach was made from the southeast, aligning with a heading of 311.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,351 feet above ground level (agl).
At final approach, the aircraft's speed exceeded the target threshold speed, registering at 144 knots compared to the expected target. This deviation highlights the pilot's need to work on maintaining optimal airspeed for touchdown. Upon touchdown, the aircraft landed 1,264 feet beyond the designated touchdown zone, indicating a slight over-shoot. The touchdown speed of 138 knots was also faster than desired.
The landing performance was further evaluated in terms of touchdown rate. The aircraft achieved a firm rate of -308 feet per minute (fpm), suggesting an effective control of the aircraft's descent. However, a higher rate of descent would have resulted in a softer touchdown.
The runway touchdown position was found to be 28 feet off-centerline, indicating a slight misalignment, while the rollout alignment after landing was marginally off-centerline by 33 feet. This deviation may be attributed to the pilot's handling of the aircraft during rolling out.
The local weather conditions presented during the landing were mild, with a temperature of 72°F and wind speeds of 3 knots from 310°. The resultant crosswind was negligible, while the headwind component contributed a minor effect to the overall approach. The landing distance covered during the roll out was 5,414 feet, representing 69% of the runway's total length of 7,793 feet.
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