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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.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 128 kt, on the 130 kt target, and lifted off at 141 kt 4.1 s later, the nose coming up at 2.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 154 kt, 22 kt under its 176 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 924 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 5,292 ft of runway left; gear up at 298 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,250 fpm on average to 924 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 10,398 ft runway.
Rolled from 486 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 15 ft at the widest, and lifted off 15 ft left. Airborne 42 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 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 40 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, 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. 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 10 ft 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 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 +8 kt on the approach speed of 127 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
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 118° at 5 kt · 4 kt tail · 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 139 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 19 s, an average deceleration of 0.31 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 35 ft, 15 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 19 ft. Touched down 1,562 ft in, 562 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 660 fpm at the flare to 100 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 2.1° 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 5,000 ft of the 11,180 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 26 ft left of the centreline, and steered back to 2 ft right by the end of 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 1,562 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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