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Improve the touchdown
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 137 kt with 10.5° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 176 kt, 7 kt under its 183 kt target.
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 868 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 783 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,350 fpm on average to 868 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,113 m runway.
Rolled from 52 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.1 m left. Airborne 49 % 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 500 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.6 to 0.5 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 0.5 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Low from 4 nm to 3.6 nm (up to 500 ft under), then back on it to the threshold.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m 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. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 18× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then 18 m right of it from 0.5 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −3 kt and +35 kt on the approach speed of 126 kt.
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
Perfect landing flare. It lost 0.4 points, partly for taking only 578 fpm of the sink out.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, 2° of bank.
Wind 130° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 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 119 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 27 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 19 ft. Touched down 292 m in, close to the ideal 305 m.
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 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m 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 690 fpm at the flare to 250 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° 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 first 1,524 m of the 2,031 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.7 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2.5 m of it down 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 292 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-600 taxied from the parking area to runway 26 at NLWW Hihifo Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 26, the aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 1,040 m, 49 % of the runway, and became airborne at a liftoff speed of 137 kt. Ambient conditions were temperature 27 °C, wind 8 kt at 117 °, with a 3 kt crosswind component and a 7 kt tailwind.
Climb commenced 1 mile south west of Vailala (Uvea, Wallis and Futuna), with the airplane climbing from 1,015 ft asl to 40,027 ft asl, an increase of 39,012 ft in 43 minutes while covering 328 nm.
Level cruise began 7 miles east of Pepesala Village (Nukulaelae, Tuvalu) and continued for 153 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 1,209 nm.
Descent was initiated 55 miles east of PKJA Jabot Airport Jabat (Jabat Island, Marshall Islands), descending from 39,659 ft asl to 841 ft asl, a decrease of 38,818 ft in 21 minutes and covering 142 nm.
The final approach to runway 24 at PKWA Bucholz Army Air Field was conducted from the east, on a heading of 253.0 ° at 4 nm and 826 ft agl.
Landing on runway 24 at PKWA Bucholz Army Air Field was achieved on a runway 2,031 m long; the threshold speed was 123 kt, touchdown occurred at 292 m from the threshold with a speed of 115 kt, and the aircraft settled at a touchdown rate of minus 163 fpm. Local weather at the time was temperature 28 °C, wind 2 kt at 130 °, with a 2 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
The total landing distance recorded was 991 m, 49 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a distance of 1,686 nm, took 224 minutes, and consumed 9,351 kg of fuel.
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