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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 879 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the attitude instead of letting the nose drop.
What happened: Sink came back after the flare had arrested it, and that pattern usually carries the touchdown long - here it landed at 1,031 m against the 457 m aim point.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, shallow rate through the flare with no renewed sink before touchdown
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 162 kt, 3 kt above the 159 kt target, and lifted off at 170 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 2.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 178 kt, 12 kt over its 166 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 879 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,549 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,600 fpm on average to 879 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 4,500 m runway.
Rolled from 226 m in, drifted 5.4 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 53 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with six 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 158 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 158 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way and sinking too fast until 3.7 nm.
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 130 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 m off the centreline.
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 40 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −11 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 flare took all the sink out 9 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 662 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 1,031 m past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 5° right of the track, 2° of bank.
Wind 141° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 2 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 67 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 2,066 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 13 ft; ballooned 14 ft from 4 ft. Touched down 1,031 m in, 726 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 2,066 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 240 fpm before coming down at 430 fpm to touch. 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 2,066 m of the 3,564 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 43 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 22 m right at the widest.
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.
Touched down 1,031 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.91 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The A343 taxied from the parking area to runway 04C at MMSM Aeropuerto Internacional General Felipe Ángeles. The taxi-out lasted 20 minutes and covered 2 nm.
The aircraft began its departure roll on runway 04C, using 2,395 m of runway, which is 53 % of the runway length. Liftoff was achieved at 170 kt. Ambient temperature was 17 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 42 °, providing a headwind component of 3 kt and a crosswind of 0 kt.
Climb commenced 1 mile north east of MMSM Aeropuerto Internacional General Felipe Ángeles, rising from 8,290 ft asl to 35,003 ft asl, an increase of 26,712 ft attained in 14 minutes while covering 87 nm.
Level cruise was established 1 mile south west of MMTW Aerolandia Airport Tlaxco and persisted for 120 minutes, encompassing 947 nm.
Descent began 48 miles south west of Captiva (Florida, United States), descending from 34,998 ft asl to 1,192 ft asl, a loss of 33,806 ft in 24 minutes over 133 nm.
The final approach to runway 09 at KMIA Miami International Airport started from 1,214 ft agl and descended to 65 ft agl in 99 seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing was executed on runway 09, which measures 3,564 m. The threshold speed was slightly below target at 147 kt. Touchdown occurred 633 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 134 kt and a firm touchdown rate of minus 300 fpm. The touchdown point was laterally offset by 42.9 m from the centreline. Local weather reported a temperature of 32 °C, wind 3 kt from 141 °, a crosswind of 2 kt and a headwind of 2 kt.
The aircraft rolled out for a total distance of 1,978 m, representing 55 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was excessively misaligned by 75.4 m from the centreline.
After exiting the runway, the A343 taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 1,178 nm, required 179 (unspecified units) of time, and consumed 19,175 kg of fuel.
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