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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 76 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 76 ft, 31 ft above the normal band, and the touchdown followed at 335 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
Below 10,000 ft you are typically limited to 250 kt indicated (a US rule that much of the world mirrors in some form, though not universally). This forces a deceleration around 10,000 ft whether the profile wants one or not, so plan for it rather than discovering it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 146 kt, on the 145 kt target, and lifted off at 155 kt 3.1 s later, the nose coming up at 0.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 173 kt, 10 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 895 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 328 m of runway left; gear up at 81 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,330 fpm on average to 895 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 2,270 m runway.
Rolled from 119 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 4 m left. Airborne 68 % 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 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 2.5 nm, about 800 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the sink rate.
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 80 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 10× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 37 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 −11 kt and +26 kt on the approach speed of 132 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 mostly held the target profile. The flare began at 76 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 360 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 3° of bank.
Wind 089° at 3 kt · 3 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 119 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 37 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 high, at 76 ft, 328 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 360 m in, 55 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 1,524 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 1,250 fpm at the flare to 340 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.5° 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 3,184 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.3 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 360 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 335 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 departed SYCJ Cheddi Jagan International Airport on runway 06. The take-off roll used 1,540 m, which is 68 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 146 kt. Local weather was 30 °C with wind 7 kt from 080°, giving a 4 kt crosswind and a 6 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 21 seconds, averaging 1,945 fpm and reaching 171 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,072 ft asl to 35,526 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 123 nm, beginning about 1 mile north-east of SYCJ. Cruise was level at 35,500 ft asl for 13 minutes, covering 99 nm, starting 22 miles east of Mabaruma. Descent began from 35,110 ft asl to 1,349 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 98 nm, starting 64 miles south-east of Rio Claro.
On final approach to runway 10 at TTPP Piarco International Airport, descent from 1,352 ft agl to 2 ft agl took 110 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration changes were: landing gear down at 2,645 ft agl at 155 kt; final flap position 7 at 2,493 ft agl at 153 kt; autopilot disconnected at 1,160 ft agl at 135 kt.
Landing on runway 10 was on a good threshold with a threshold speed of 130 kt. The flare was described as very good and started early. Touchdown occurred at 360 m down the runway, at 119 kt, with a firm rate of minus 335 fpm and perfect alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,116 m, 35 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 330 nm in 65 minutes and used 2,079 kg of fuel.
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