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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.
Lifted off at 92 kt with 8.2° 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 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 339 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,579 ft of runway left; then climbing at 660 fpm on average to 339 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 6,552 ft runway.
Rolled from 134 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 5 ft at the widest, and lifted off 5 ft right. 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 540 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, 1,000 ft 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 2.8 nm, then drifted 330 ft right between 2.8 and 2.1 nm, then inside the band from 2.1 nm to the threshold.
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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 1.6 nm (up to +108 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, 7° of bank.
Wind 016° at 2 kt · 0 kt head · 1 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 98 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,429 ft in, 429 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 5,000 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 210 fpm at 40 ft to 150 fpm at 32 ft, then back up to 410 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 5,000 ft of the 9,826 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7 ft left of the centreline and drifted to 19 ft 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.
The 1,429 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cessna 310R, then departed from runway 10 at SVCS Oscar Machado Zuluaga Airport. The takeoff distance was 2,654 feet, which accounted for 41% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 92 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 83°F, with a wind speed of 3 knots at 47°. The crosswind was 2 knots, and the headwind was also 2 knots. The aircraft climbed to an altitude of 8,645 feet above sea level, an increase of 6,127 feet from the initial altitude of 2,517 feet. This climb took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 17 nautical miles.
The enroute climb started over SVCS Oscar Machado Zuluaga Airport, Caracas, and continued until the aircraft reached a level cruise altitude. The first level cruise segment began 4 miles northwest of Los Teques, Venezuela, and lasted for 9 minutes, covering a distance of 25 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, which started 11 miles northeast of El Limon, Venezuela. The descent from 8,503 feet to 8,026 feet took 2 minutes and covered 5 nautical miles.
The aircraft then leveled off and began another level cruise segment, which started 9 miles north of El Limon and lasted for 7 minutes, covering a distance of 22 nautical miles. The descent from 7,421 feet to 6,121 feet began 2 miles east of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, and took 3 minutes to cover 8 nautical miles. The aircraft then leveled off again and began a final level cruise segment, which started 4 miles south of SVPC General Bartolome Salom International Airport, Puerto Cabello, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering 5 nautical miles.
The final descent began 10 miles northwest of Valencia, Venezuela, and took 4 minutes to cover 11 nautical miles. The aircraft descended from 6,109 feet to 2,899 feet, a decrease of 3,209 feet. The final approach to runway 10 at SVVA Arturo Michelena International Airport was made from the west, with a heading of 98.0° at 3 nautical miles and 1,463 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 10 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 1,431 feet and a touchdown speed of 93 knots, which was slightly above the target speed. The touchdown rate was hard at -406 feet per minute, but the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 76°F, with a wind speed of 2 knots at 16°. The crosswind was 1 knot, and the headwind was 0 knots.
The total landing distance was 3,874 feet, which accounted for 39% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also very good. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 98 nautical miles, and the flight took 46 minutes to complete. The aircraft used 118 pounds of fuel during the flight.
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