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Arrival
Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 457 m instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 223 m past the target, landing at 680 m against the 457 m aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 131 kt, on the 130 kt target, and lifted off at 139 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 5.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 174 kt, 9 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 921 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,704 m of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,380 fpm on average to 921 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 4,091 m runway.
Rolled from 1,144 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 53 % 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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 122 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.9 to 1.6 nm, then not again: fast from 1.6 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 30 ft above 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 31× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 11 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 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.7 nm, then fast to 1.9 nm (up to +35 kt), then inside the band to 1.6 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +25 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 tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 680 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 122 kt. Touched down with the nose 3° into wind, wings level.
Wind 210° at 12 kt · 11 kt tail · 3 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 130 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 s, an average deceleration of 0.43 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.
Crossed the threshold at 28 ft, 22 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 38 ft. Touched down 680 m in, 376 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 490 fpm at the flare to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.9° 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 3,108 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.4 m left of the centreline and drifted to 5.5 m left on 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.
Touched down 680 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-600 departed KLAS Harry Reid International Airport on runway 26R. The take-off roll was 2,191 m, using 54 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 131 kt. Local weather was 18 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 209°, giving a 2 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 21 seconds, averaging 2,272 fpm and reaching 181 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 3,125 ft asl to 40,684 ft asl in 39 minutes, covering 311 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-west of Paradise. Cruise continued at 40,300 ft asl for 265 minutes, covering 2,296 nm, starting 4 miles east of UT68 Caveman Ranch Airport, Moab.
Descent began at 39,663 ft asl and proceeded to 1,723 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 129 nm, with the segment starting 35 miles north-east of CDA9 Couteau Bay. The final approach to runway 03 at CYQX Gander International Airport started from 1,314 ft agl and descended to 45 ft agl in 90 seconds.
Stabilisation checks were performed at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. Gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level were met; speed was not met at one gate. The landing gear was lowered at 3,872 ft agl while the aircraft was at 260 kt. The final flap position (flap 8) was selected at 1,302 ft agl with a speed of 147 kt.
Landing on runway 03 was completed with a good threshold height. The threshold speed was slightly above target at 137 kt. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 260 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 122 kt, a little fast, with a descent rate of minus 153 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,009 m, 32 % of the 3,108 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at CYQX was 7 °C with wind 10 kt from 205°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and a 10 kt tailwind. After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 2,743 nm in 330 minutes and used 12,926 kg of fuel.
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