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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 176 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 154 kt against a target of 176 kt, running 22 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 176 kt.
Arrival
Apply small, early rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline from touchdown onward.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 28 ft off the centreline during the landing roll, and by touchdown the offset had grown to 28 ft. A centreline deviation that appears on landing usually carries through to a larger offset at touchdown.
Watch for: Centreline marker: aircraft tracking straight over the runway centreline, not drifting to either side.
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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 11,180 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,562 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-700 departed KOAK San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport on runway 30. The take-off roll was 4,411 ft, 42 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 128 kt. Local weather was 70 °F with wind 3 kt from 268°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 21 seconds, averaging 2,227 fpm and reaching 158 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 989 ft asl to 38,992 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 132 nm, with a brief level-off at 10,000 ft asl. Cruise was level at 39,000 ft asl for 13 minutes, covering 106 nm. Descent from 38,998 ft asl to 2,157 ft asl took 23 minutes over 126 nm, beginning 2 mi north-east of L45 Bakersfield Muni.
On final approach to runway 26R at KONT Ontario International Airport, descent from 1,264 ft agl to 23 ft agl lasted 101 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 3,973 ft agl, 165 kt; final flap position 7 at 3,896 ft agl, 165 kt.
Landing on runway 26R (runway length 11,180 ft) had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly above target at 134 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 179 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 133 kt, a little fast, with a smooth rate of -104 fpm. Touchdown position was misaligned by 28 ft from the centreline; there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 3,478 ft, 31 % of the runway. Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 26 ft from the centreline.
Local weather at KONT was 76 °F with wind 2 kt from 125°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt tail-wind. Taxiing to the parking from the runway took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The flight covered 372 nm in 67 minutes and used 5,807 lb of fuel.
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