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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 53 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and wing drift like that usually keeps reappearing as bank in the climb, with 2.9° of bank in the first climb segment and 24° still showing in the second.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the runway centreline during the roll, then wings level through the climb.
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final so threshold speed settles at 138 kt instead of carrying it into the flare.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 305 kt, well above the 138 kt target speed, and that excess speed was still showing at touchdown. Crossing the threshold fast usually carries straight through to a fast touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 138 kt on short final.
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 139 kt with 9.6° 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 205 ft.
Reached 35 ft 1,287 m past the runway end; then climbing at 210 fpm on average to 205 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 3,441 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 53 m at the widest, and lifted off 53 m right. Airborne 24 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 500 ft gate: no landing flap set, sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 21 kt above the approach speed of 138 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap all the way, left of the centreline all the way, fast all the way, high until 0.3 nm, sinking too fast from 3.4 nm and banked from 0.8 nm to the threshold.
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.
High from 4 nm to 0.3 nm (up to 2,500 ft over), 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, 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,002 m left of 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +276 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 poor landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 6° left of the track, 20° of bank.
Wind 269° at 5 kt · 5 kt tail · 2 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.
Side view — the last 2,293 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 217 m in, 88 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 2,293 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 stayed between 2,110 fpm and 2,260 fpm from 35 ft to the runway. The nose came up 2.2° 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 2,293 m of the 2,964 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 112 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 22 m left by the end of 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 217 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.90 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 05R at Benito Juárez International Airport, also known as MMMX. The Boeing F/A-18E aircraft took off with a takeoff distance of 834 meters, which accounted for 24% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 140 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time were a temperature of 18 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 270 degrees.
Following the departure, the aircraft entered a level cruise at an altitude of 7,622 feet above sea level, approximately 2 miles northeast of the airport. This initial cruise lasted less than a minute and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then began a climb from 7,622 feet to 24,196 feet, an increase of 16,573 feet in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 28 nautical miles.
The flight continued with multiple enroute level cruises and climbs, each with varying altitudes and distances covered. The aircraft climbed from 23,962 feet to 39,683 feet in 2 minutes, covering 12 nautical miles, and then descended from 39,732 feet to 7,648 feet in 2 minutes, covering 12 nautical miles. The flight also included a climb from 7,571 feet to 16,436 feet in 2 minutes, covering 18 nautical miles, and a descent from 16,503 feet to 9,114 feet in 2 minutes, covering 20 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 05L at Benito Juárez International Airport was made from the southwest, with a heading of 64.0 degrees at 2 nautical miles and 1,618 feet above ground level. The landing was made on the runway, which had a length of 2,964 meters. The touchdown distance was good at 147 meters, but the touchdown speed was excessively fast at 303 knots. The touchdown rate was also very heavy at -2,361 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was excessively misaligned by 121.4 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 4 knots from a direction of 293 degrees. The crosswind was 3 knots, and the tailwind was 2 knots. The total landing distance was 2,211 meters, which accounted for 75% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also excessively misaligned by 241.3 meters from the centerline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area from the runway in less than a minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 106 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 14 minutes. The aircraft used a total of -948 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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