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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 134 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 51 kt fast at 185 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 134 kt in the climb
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 83 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 95 kt against a target of 83 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 83 kt at the threshold.
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 85 kt, on the 87 kt target, and lifted off at 90 kt 1.3 s later, the nose coming up at 4.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 185 kt, 51 kt over its 134 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 787 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 908 m of runway left; gear up at 28 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 790 fpm on average to 787 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 1,699 m runway.
Rolled from 71 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.3 m right. Airborne 34 % 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.
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.
When the approach was stable
Not every check held at once 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 850 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 9× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 41 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.2 nm (up to +48 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 tracked the target profile closely. Crossing the threshold 12 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 723 m past the threshold. The flare cannot burn off excess energy - fix the approach speed and the float goes with it.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 6° left of the track, wings level.
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 85 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 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.
Crossed the threshold at 49 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 17 ft. Touched down 723 m in, 419 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 250 fpm at the flare to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.8° 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 3,000 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.2 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.7 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 723 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 01 at SKSM Simón Bolívar International Airport in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 01, the aircraft used 591 m of runway, representing 35 % of the available length, and lifted off at 90 kt; local weather reported a temperature of 32 °C, wind 3 kt from 250°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
Climb commenced 2 miles north of SKSM, with the airplane ascending from 806 ft asl to 5,434 ft asl, a gain of 4,628 ft in 6 minutes while covering 23 nm.
The first cruise segment began 18 miles north-east of Santa Marta and lasted 35 minutes, during which 146 nm were flown.
Descent started 11 miles west of SVMC La Chinita International Airport, descending from 5,508 ft asl to 1,491 ft asl, a loss of 4,017 ft in 6 minutes and covering 25 nm.
A brief cruise followed 3 miles east of SVMC, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 6 nm.
The second descent began 2 miles south-west of Maracaibo, dropping from 1,210 ft asl to 711 ft asl, a decrease of 500 ft in 3 minutes while covering 8 nm.
On final approach to runway 21R at SVMC, the aircraft approached from the north on a heading of 202.0° at 4 nm and 491 ft agl; weather at the time was 30 °C with calm wind.
Landing on runway 21R, which is 3,000 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 95 kt; touchdown was 292 m beyond the touchdown zone at 81 kt, a rate of minus 169 fpm, and the wheel track was 3.6 m off centreline.
Runway rollout covered a distance of 1,168 m, equal to 39 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was reported as perfect.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 216 nm, took 60 minutes, and consumed 196 kg of fuel.
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