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Arrival
Add power on final to cross the threshold at 136 kt, correcting the speed before the flare begins.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 9 kt below the 136 kt target, and the flare that followed raised the nose only 0.7° with little of the sink taken out. Shallow, underpowered approaches like this usually carry through into a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 136 kt at the threshold
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.
Rotated at 140 kt, 8 kt below the 148 kt target, and lifted off at 150 kt 3.0 s later, the nose coming up at 2.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 194 kt, 10 kt over its 184 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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 827 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,816 m of runway left; gear up at 302 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,730 fpm on average to 827 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 3,770 m runway.
Rolled from 81 m in, drifted 2.8 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 43 % 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.
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: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 136 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 136 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way, right of the centreline from 0.3 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 60 ft below the slope.
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 31× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 12 m right of it from 0.3 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −14 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
The flare wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.6° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 424 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 127 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 009° at 7 kt · 1 kt head · 6 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 130 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 69 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 2,081 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft. Touched down 424 m in, 120 m past 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 2,081 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 590 fpm at the flare to 330 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 2,081 m of the 3,564 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.7 m right of the centreline and drifted to 6.2 m right on the rollout, back to 2.1 m right by the end.
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 424 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 334 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The B752 taxied from the parking area to runway 09L at KATL, a movement that lasted 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 09L with a take-off roll of 1,640 m (44 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 140 kt. Local weather at departure was 13 °C, wind 2 kt from 291°, crosswind 1 kt and tailwind 2 kt.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 26 seconds, averaging 1,814 fpm and reaching 195 kt at the top of the segment.
Climb continued from 1,930 ft asl to 39,004 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 165 nm, beginning 1 mile south of Hapeville.
Level cruise at 39,000 ft asl was held for 28 minutes, covering 235 nm, beginning 4 miles north of Cairo.
Descent from 39,008 ft asl to 1,301 ft asl took 28 minutes and covered 162 nm, beginning 1 mile west of Sarasota.
On final approach to runway 09 at KMIA, descent from 1,349 ft agl to 107 ft agl was completed in 117 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate. Configuration changes were: landing gear down at 2,778 ft agl at 182 kt, and final flap position 6 at 1,572 ft agl at 147 kt.
Landing was made on runway 09, whose length is 3,564 m. The threshold height at 57 ft agl was slightly above target and the threshold speed was good at 127 kt. The flare was described as very good, starting early. Touchdown occurred 433 m down the runway at a speed of 127 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 284 fpm, rated fair. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good and there was no bounce.
Total landing distance was 1,998 m, 56 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at KMIA was 24 °C, wind 3 kt from 358°, crosswind 3 kt, headwind 0 kt.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 570 nm in 93 minutes and used 4,237 kg of fuel.
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