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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 183 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 135 kt against a target of 183 kt, running 48 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 183 kt.
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,003 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 366 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 707-320 taxied from the parking area to runway 04L at MMSM Aeropuerto Internacional General Felipe Ángeles. The taxi-out required 13 minutes and covered 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 04L the aircraft accelerated over a distance of 1,541 m, representing 34 % of the runway, and lifted off at 133 kt. Local weather at the time was Temperature 19 °C, Wind 10 kt from 30°, with a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 9 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead MMSM, with the airplane climbing from 8,513 ft asl to 35,675 ft asl, an increase of 27,162 ft achieved in 17 minutes while covering 109 nm.
The first cruise segment began 3 miles south of Xilitla (Estado de San Luis Potosi, Mexico) and continued for 29 minutes, during which 223 nm were flown at level altitude.
Descent started 11 miles east of MXML Linares Airport (Linares, Estado de Nuevo Leon, Mexico). The aircraft descended from 35,991 ft asl to 3,640 ft asl, a loss of 32,351 ft in 17 minutes, covering 95 nm.
A subsequent level cruise was flown 2 miles west of MMAN Del Norte International Airport (Monterrey, Estado de Nuevo Leon, Mexico) for 2 minutes, traversing 3 nm.
A further short cruise segment occurred 1 mile south of the same airport, lasting 1 minute and covering an additional 3 nm.
The final approach to runway 11 at MMMY Monterrey International Airport was conducted from the north-west, on a heading of 121.0° at 4 nm and 1,098 ft agl.
Landing on runway 11, whose length is 3,001 m, was achieved with a threshold speed slightly below target at 125 kt. Touchdown occurred 364 m down the runway at 116 kt, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 336 fpm and a lateral deviation of 3.9 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was Temperature 30 °C, Wind 16 kt from 80°, with a 10 kt cross-wind and a 12 kt head-wind component.
The runway rollout distance measured 717 m, representing 24 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was very good.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 444 nm, lasted 82 minutes, and consumed 5,889 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 707-320 conducted the final approach to runway 11 at MMMY Monterrey International Airport from the north-west, tracking a heading of 121.0° at 4 nm and 1,098 ft agl. Local conditions were 30 °C with wind 16 kt from 080°, providing a 12 kt headwind component and a 10 kt crosswind component.
Threshold height was good and the threshold speed was a little below target at 125 kt during the flare.
Touchdown occurred 364 m down the runway, a good distance, with a touchdown speed of 116 kt that was also good. The aircraft settled with a firm touchdown rate of minus 336 fpm and the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.9 m from the centreline. Total landing distance was 717 m, representing 24 % of the 3,001 m runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
Refine the flare to achieve a smoother touchdown and reduce the firm rate, and make a minor adjustment to the final alignment to eliminate the 3.9 m offset from the centreline.
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