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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 674 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 407 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 149 kt, 3 kt below the 152 kt target, and lifted off at 155 kt 1.9 s later, the nose coming up at 5.0° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 184 kt target, at 180 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 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 828 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,264 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,140 fpm on average to 828 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 2,727 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline. 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.
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 3.6 nm, about 1,170 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the speed.
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 90 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 10× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 39 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.6 nm (up to +45 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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 mostly held the target profile. The flare arrested the sink and then let it come back - 674 fpm of it - so the aircraft dropped the last few feet. Touchdown was 124 m past the threshold. Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, 2° of bank.
Wind 050° at 3 kt · 0 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 143 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 32 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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.
Began the flare at 45 ft, 223 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 11 ft, 39 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 124 m in, 181 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 1,000 fpm at the flare to 410 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.3° 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 2,266 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.2 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 124 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 407 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 07 at SAWH Malvinas Argentinas Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 07. The aircraft used 1,147 m of runway, 42 % of the available length, and rotated at 149 kt. Local weather at departure was 10 °C, wind 1 kt from 240°, with a 0 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 20 seconds, averaging 1,919 fpm and reaching 186 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 962 ft asl to 36,494 ft asl in 39 minutes, covering 289 nm, beginning 1 mile east of SAWH.
Cruise was level at 37,000 ft asl for 205 minutes, covering 1,651 nm, with the aircraft positioned at latitude -50.4272848, longitude -65.2041433.
Descent began from 36,356 ft asl to 4,243 ft asl in 11 minutes, covering 69 nm, starting 4 miles south-east of Rio Negro.
Final approach to runway 15 at SBCT Afonso Pena Airport started from 1,308 ft agl and descended to 35 ft agl in 90 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. The landing gear was down at 8,317 ft agl at 307 kt; final flap position 8 was selected at 1,100 ft agl at 172 kt.
Landing was on runway 15, whose length is 2,266 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 136 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 124 m down the runway at 135 kt, noted as a little fast, with a hard touchdown rate of minus 408 fpm. Alignment on touchdown and during rollout was perfect, with no bounce. Total landing distance was 767 m, 34 % of the runway, and rollout alignment remained perfect.
Local weather at landing was 16 °C, wind 3 kt from 050°, with a 3 kt crosswind and no headwind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 2,015 nm in 261 minutes and used 12,944 kg of fuel.
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