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Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 161 kt with 8.1° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 166 kt target, at 170 kt on average.
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 914 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,302 m of runway left; gear up at 8 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,500 fpm on average to 914 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 2,638 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 2 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 m left, in 11 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 35 % 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 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 15× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 26 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +15 kt on the approach speed of 139 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 tracked the target profile closely. The flare began at 10 ft agl above the runway, lower than this type wants. Touchdown was 241 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 144 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 259° at 25 kt · 24 kt head · 3 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 124 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 10 ft. Touched down 241 m in, 64 m short of 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 530 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° 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 2,392 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.5 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 241 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.15 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
Departing from John F Kennedy International Airport's runway 22R, the CRJ900 began its journey with a smooth taxiing phase, covering 1 nautical mile in 5 minutes. As the aircraft reached the runway threshold, it initiated its departure roll, utilizing 914 meters, or 35% of the runway, to achieve liftoff at a speed of 162 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 19°C, with a wind speed of 24 knots from 179°, resulting in a 12-knot crosswind and a 21-knot headwind.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb 1 mile north of Arverne, New York, reaching an altitude of 36,015 feet above sea level in 16 minutes, covering a distance of 142 nautical miles. The climb profile featured a significant increase of 35,036 feet, demonstrating the aircraft's efficient climb capabilities. Following the enroute climb, the CRJ900 entered a level cruise phase 3 miles north of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, maintaining a steady altitude for 16 minutes while covering 419 nautical miles. The descent phase commenced 2 miles east of Boulder Canyon Belding, Michigan, where the aircraft descended from 36,002 feet to 1,947 feet above sea level in 15 minutes, covering 116 nautical miles.
Upon approaching General Mitchell International Airport, the CRJ900 initiated its final approach to runway 25L from the east, aligning with the runway at 4 nautical miles and 1,200 feet above ground level. The landing was executed with a threshold speed of 143 knots, touchdown distance of 244 meters, and a touchdown speed of 144 knots, which was slightly above the optimal range. The touchdown rate was firm at -318 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 685 nautical miles, with a total fuel consumption of 3,408 kilograms, and a flight duration of 57 minutes.
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