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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 6.2 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: You drifted off the centreline on the approach.
Watch for: Runway centreline: tracked all the way to the threshold.
See Arrival Approach
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 14 stages, 12 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 59 kt with 3.0° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 62 kt, 7 kt under its 69 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 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 644 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,675 m of runway left; then climbing at 880 fpm on average to 644 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,365 m runway.
Rolled from 215 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 7.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.5 m right. Airborne 14 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 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.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, no landing flap until 2.0 nm, high until 1.7 nm, sinking too fast until 1.5 nm and left of the centreline until 0.3 nm.
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 2° band in green.
High from 2.2 nm, where the final began, to 1.7 nm (up to 580 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 567 m left of the centreline at 2.2 nm, then inside the band 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +57 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. Crossing the threshold 12 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 763 m past the threshold. The flare cannot burn off excess energy - fix the approach speed and the float goes with it.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 0 kt tail · 0 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 44 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 6 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 42 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 20 ft; ballooned 2 ft from 4 ft. Touched down 763 m in, 458 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.
The sink went from 320 fpm at the flare to 100 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 8.5° 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 3,365 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.3 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4 m right at the widest.
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.
Touched down 763 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at MDSD Las Américas International Airport took approximately 1 minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The Cessna 152 then began its departure roll on runway 17, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 60 knots. The takeoff distance of 514 meters accounted for 15% of the runway length, demonstrating a relatively efficient departure. Local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 15°C, with a negligible wind of 1 knot from a direction of 270°.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it transitioned into an enroute climb phase, ascending from an initial altitude of 705 feet above sea level to 1,638 feet. This increase of 933 feet was achieved in just 2 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. Following this climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, maintaining an altitude of 1,638 feet for 2 minutes while covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The enroute cruise phase was conducted 1 mile northeast of MDSD Las Américas International Airport, allowing the aircraft to conserve fuel and maintain a steady pace.
The final approach to runway 17 was initiated from a heading of 165.0°, approximately 1 nautical mile from the airport and at an altitude of 724 feet above ground level. The landing was executed with a threshold speed that was slightly higher than optimal at 73 knots, but the touchdown speed of 34 knots was well within acceptable limits. The touchdown point was located 317 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown rate of -39 feet per minute was perfect. The total landing distance of 856 meters accounted for 25% of the runway length, demonstrating a safe and controlled touchdown. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, having completed a total flight distance of 9 nautical miles and consuming 2 kilograms of fuel in the process.
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