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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 8.9 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 57 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 12 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: sink rate 1,556 fpm, more than the glideslope needed.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,690 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,690 m of the 3,564 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 488 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320 departed Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport on runway 07, using a take-off distance of 2,193 m (69 % of the runway) and achieving liftoff at 163 kt. Local conditions were 17 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 269°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 4 kt tailwind.
Climb commenced one mile east of the departure airport, rising from 1,098 ft asl to 37,656 ft asl - an altitude gain of 36,558 ft - over 22 minutes while covering 151 nm.
The first cruise segment began 10 nm north-east of El Progreso, lasting 62 minutes and encompassing 500 nm of level flight.
A second climb started 28 nm south of Batabano, increasing altitude from 38,001 ft asl to 41,713 ft asl (3,712 ft) in 2 minutes and traversing 14 nm.
Descent began 14 nm south of Batabano, dropping from 43,753 ft asl to 34,001 ft asl - a loss of 9,752 ft - in 5 minutes while covering 36 nm.
The next cruise phase originated 3 nm south-east of Jaruco, lasting 7 minutes and covering 56 nm.
A further descent was initiated 38 nm north of Varadero, descending from 34,002 ft asl to 17,216 ft asl (16,786 ft) in 14 minutes and spanning 88 nm.
The third cruise segment started 8 nm north-west of the Coba Island resort, lasting 42 minutes and covering less than 1 nm.
Descent resumed 8 nm north-west of the same resort, falling from 17,192 ft asl to 1,289 ft asl - a reduction of 15,904 ft - in 12 minutes and covering 53 nm.
Final approach to runway 09 at Miami International Airport was conducted from the west, on a heading of 87.0° at 4 nm and 1,269 ft agl.
Landing on runway 09, which is 3,555 m long, was achieved with a threshold speed of 136 kt. Touchdown occurred 63 m beyond the touchdown zone at 135 kt, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 390 fpm and a lateral deviation of 6.5 m from the centreline. Local weather was 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, no crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind. The total landing distance recorded was 1,601 m (45 % of the runway).
Rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 9.9 m, and the aircraft decelerated along the remaining runway after touchdown.
Taxi-in to the parking area required 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 905 nm, required 129 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 4,909 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 entered the final approach to runway 09 at KMIA from the west on a heading of 87.0° at 4 nm and 1,297 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 151 kt.
Touchdown occurred 371 m down the runway, with a touchdown speed of 149 kt described as a little fast and a touchdown rate of minus 272 fpm judged fair; runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The rollout used a total landing distance of 1,837 m, representing 52 % of the 3,555 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
With a score of 98.6 % the landing was strong; refining speed control to bring touchdown speed closer to target and smoothing the flare to reduce the descent rate will tighten the already high performance.
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