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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 32 kt with 14.8° 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 94 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,671 ft of runway left.
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 6,858 ft runway.
Rolled from 2,251 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 874 ft at the widest, and lifted off 433 ft left. Airborne 41 % 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 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 300 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and centreline more than 1° off.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Very poor landing flare
5 kt across from the right, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 42 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 016° at 6 kt · 2 kt tail · 5 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 4,227 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 86 ft, 36 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,286 ft in, 286 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 4,227 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 1,430 fpm at 94 ft to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 8.2° 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 full 4,227 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 30 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 34 ft left at the widest.
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 1,286 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.18 G arrival bounced 3 times.
The rest of the report
Departure from Macapá - Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport (SBMQ) commenced with a roll on runway 26. The aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 33 kt, achieving lift-off in a distance of 2,887 ft, which represented 42% of the available runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 81 °F, with a wind speed of 8 kt at 20°, resulting in a crosswind of 5 kt and a tailwind of 7 kt.
As the aircraft transitioned to the enroute phase, it began climbing from an initial altitude of 155 ft above sea level to 4,123 ft, an increase of 3,968 ft, in just 4 minutes. This climb phase was followed by a level cruise, which lasted 7 minutes and covered a distance of 11 nm. The aircraft then commenced its descent, reducing its altitude from 4,490 ft to 178 ft in 6 minutes, while covering a distance of 7 nm. The descent phase was completed in preparation for landing at Hangar Comandante Salomão Alcolumbre Airport (SJKI), where the aircraft touched down on runway 29.
The landing phase was executed with a touchdown distance of 1,142 ft, which represented 36% of the available runway length. The touchdown speed of 42 kt was within acceptable limits, and the touchdown rate of -112 fpm was smooth. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 30 ft. Following touchdown, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 23 nm, and the aircraft consumed 4 lbs of fuel during the 19-minute flight.
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