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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 4.5 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: You drifted off the centreline on the approach.
Watch for: Runway centreline: tracked all the way to the threshold.
See Arrival Approach
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: centreline 4.1° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,797 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 404 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Douglas DC-6 taxied from the parking area to runway 10 at MMMD Aeropuerto Internacional Manuel Crescencio Rejón, a movement that required 9 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 10, the aircraft accelerated for a takeoff distance of 1,402 m, representing 49 % of the runway, and lifted off at 96 kt; ambient temperature was 25 °C.
The climb commenced 4 mi north-west of Acanceh, Yucatán, where the airplane rose from 763 ft asl to 6,537 ft asl, an increase of 5,774 ft achieved in 5 minutes while covering 15 nm.
A first level-cruise segment began 5 mi south-east of Mérida, Yucatán, lasting 1 minute and spanning 4 nm.
The next cruise phase started 3 mi north-east of Cuzamá, Yucatán, persisted for 25 minutes and extended over 95 nm.
A subsequent cruise segment originated 5 mi south-east of Kantunilkín, Quintana Roo, lasted 13 minutes and covered 39 nm.
Descent began 6 mi north-east of X-Can, Yucatán, with the aircraft descending from 6,975 ft asl to 3,400 ft asl, a loss of 3,575 ft in 3 minutes while traveling 13 nm.
The final approach to runway 12L at MMUN Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún was flown from the west on a heading of 123.0 °, at 3 nm and 1,611 ft agl.
Landing on runway 12L, which is 2,797 m long, the threshold speed was 107 kt, touchdown occurred at 405 m down the runway with a speed of 103 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 169 fpm; the touchdown point was 9.7 m off the centreline. Local weather reported a temperature of 25 °C, wind 3 kt from 290°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 3 kt tailwind. Total landing distance was 1,418 m, equal to 51 % of the runway.
Runway rollout showed a slight alignment deviation of 9.6 m from the centreline.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 8 minutes, covering a distance of 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 179 nm, required 58 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 929 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 04R at KMDW was flown from the southwest on a heading of 43.0° at 4 NM and 1,472 ft AGL. At the 1,000 ft gate the approach was assessed as unstable because the sink rate was too high.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 141 kt. Touchdown distance was good at 1,415 ft, touchdown speed was good at 135 kt and touchdown rate was good at minus 178 fpm. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 16 ft from the centreline.
The touchdown itself occurred within the expected parameters, with the aircraft touching down at the indicated speed and rate and the same slight 16-ft lateral offset from centreline. Total landing distance measured 3,943 ft, representing 67 % of the 5,922-ft runway length.
Rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 25 ft from the centreline, and the aircraft decelerated to a stop within the remaining runway distance.
The landing scored 96.5 % overall; focus on achieving a stabilized sink rate before the 1,000 ft gate and on tightening centreline alignment during touchdown and rollout to reduce the small lateral offsets.
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