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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 183 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 157 kt against a target of 183 kt, running 26 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 183 kt.
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 549 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
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff pitch close to a tail strike
The wheels left at 10.9°, 0.1° short of this aircraft's 11° tail strike.
The tail can only touch while the main wheels are still on the runway, so the margin that matters is the one at liftoff. Rotate at the rotate speed, at the normal rate, and let the aircraft fly itself off at its own attitude: keep the pull going towards the climb attitude only once the wheels have left. Rotating early, or pulling faster than the aircraft can lift off, is what eats the margin.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,923 m runway.
Rolled from 126 m in, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline, in 14 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 52 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 936 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,189 m of runway left; gear up at 436 ft, 36 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,630 fpm on average to 936 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 2.6 to 3.5° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Boeing 737 MAX 8 pilots over the last 180 days (80 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 11°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: banked until 0.7 nm, left of the centreline from 0.3 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 1.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 70 ft above 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 380 m left of the centreline at 1.2 nm, then drifted 48 m right between 0.9 and 0.3 nm, then 16 m left of it from 0.3 nm to the threshold.
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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +4 kt and +13 kt on the approach speed of 145 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
Excellent landing flare
It lost 2.7 points, mostly for rising 2 ft agl in the flare.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 47 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 16 ft; ballooned 2 ft from 2 ft. Touched down 549 m in, 244 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 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 110 fpm before coming down at 240 fpm to touch. The pitch barely changed. Into the flare at 149 kt, on the 150 kt approach speed, and 138 kt at touchdown.
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 2,131 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.3 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.7 m left at the widest. 5 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 138 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 319° at 19 kt · 18 kt head · 5 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 549 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 115 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.23 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.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 departed from runway 24L at CYUL Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The take-off roll used 1,522 m, which was 52 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 147 kt. Local weather was 12 °C with a wind of 15 kt from 300°, giving a 15 kt crosswind component and a 3 kt headwind component.
Initial climb reached 1,000 ft agl in 20 seconds, averaging 2,327 fpm and attaining 163 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,096 ft asl to 33,494 ft asl in 15 minutes while covering 96 nm, starting overhead Dorval. Cruise was level at 34,000 ft asl for 10 minutes, covering 82 nm, beginning 8 miles south-east of Newcomb. Descent began from 33,236 ft asl to 345 ft asl in 25 minutes, covering 128 nm, starting 2 miles west of Castleton-on-Hudson.
On final approach to runway 31 at KLGA LaGuardia Airport, the aircraft descended from 436 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 40 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate and glideslope, but speed was not met. Configuration at 170 ft agl was gear down at 151 kt and final flap position 7 at 151 kt.
A go-around was executed on runway 31 at KLGA at 30 ft agl.
The subsequent final approach to runway 31 descended from 456 ft agl to 61 ft agl in 29 seconds. At 500 ft the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope and speed. Configuration remained gear down at 170 ft agl, 151 kt, with flap 7 at 151 kt.
Landing occurred on runway 31, whose length is 2,131 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 152 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown was 135 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 138 kt, with a rate of -238 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.6 m from the centreline. Local weather was 13 °C with wind 18 kt from 320°, giving a 5 kt crosswind and a 17 kt headwind. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,123 m, 53 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 344 nm in 72 minutes and used 0 kg of fuel.
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