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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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 137 kt with 10.1° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 183 kt target, at 182 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 853 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,142 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,480 fpm on average to 853 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 3,039 m runway.
Rolled from 843 m in, never more than 1.5 m off the centreline. Airborne 54 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.5 to 0.3 nm, then not again: low 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.
Low from 4 nm to 2.3 nm (up to 490 ft under), then back on it to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 50 ft under).
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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.1 nm, then fast to 0.5 nm (up to +17 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.2 points, for starting the flare at 10 ft agl, below the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 059° at 4 kt · 3 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 123 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.25 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 1,499 m of the approach.
Began the flare late, at 10 ft; crossed the threshold at 4 ft, 46 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 2 ft from 3 ft. Touched down 185 m in, 120 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 1,499 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 510 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at 4 ft, then back up to 310 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 full 1,499 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.7 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2.2 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 185 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 312 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-600 taxied from the parking area to runway 08 at KJAX Jacksonville International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 08, the aircraft used 1,658 m of runway, representing 55 % of the available length, and lifted off at 138 kt; ambient temperature was 28 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 159°, a cross-wind component of 3 kt and no head-wind.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile north-east of KJAX, with the airplane accelerating from 962 ft asl to 40,653 ft asl, an altitude gain of 39,691 ft achieved in 45 minutes while traversing 347 nm.
Level cruise began 16 miles east of Grand Cay in the Bahamas and persisted for 108 minutes, during which the flight covered 904 nm.
Descent was initiated about 10 miles north-west of TUPG Capt. Auguste George Anegada, descending from 40,681 ft asl to 940 ft asl, a loss of 39,741 ft in 14 minutes and spanning 88 nm.
The final approach to runway 11 at TQPF Clayton J Lloyd International Airport was flown from the west on a heading of 91.0° at 4 nm and 839 ft agl; local conditions were 28 °C, wind 4 kt from 60°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind.
Landing on runway 11, which is 1,499 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 127 kt, a touchdown distance of 187 m, a touchdown speed of 123 kt, and a firm touchdown rate of minus 323 fpm; the alignment at touchdown was very good and the total landing distance measured 597 m, representing 40 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect as the aircraft decelerated to a stop after the 597 m landing roll.
In total, the flight covered 1,345 nm, required 173 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 7,577 kg of fuel.
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