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Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 216 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 216 fpm next time
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.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 15 stages, 13 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 124 kt, 3 kt below the 127 kt target, and lifted off at 133 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 4.9° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 176 kt target, at 171 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 867 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,129 m of runway left; gear up at 13 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,560 fpm on average to 867 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 2,199 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.5 m right. Airborne 38 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.5 nm, about 1,160 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 40 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 7 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 30 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.5 nm (up to +43 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 080° at 3 kt · 1 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 114 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.44 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 32 ft, 139 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 18 ft, 32 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 257 m in, 47 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 590 fpm at the flare to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.8° 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 2,141 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.3 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 257 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 16 at CYXC Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 16, the Boeing 737-700 accelerated to a liftoff speed of 134 kt and left the runway after traveling 836 m, which represented 38 % of the available length; ambient temperature was 23 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 210 °, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
Climb commenced overhead CYXC, with the aircraft ascending from 3,994 ft asl to 40,878 ft asl, an increase of 36,885 ft achieved in 41 minutes while covering 309 nm.
Cruise began 13 miles north-east of KLET Lewistown Airport and continued for 173 minutes, during which the flight traversed 1,467 nm at level altitude.
Descent was initiated 1 mile south-west of Enola, Pennsylvania, with the aircraft descending from 40,999 ft asl to 1,392 ft asl, a loss of 39,608 ft in 13 minutes and a distance of 87 nm.
The final approach to runway 01 at KILG Wilmington Airport was flown from the south on a heading of 5.0 °, intercepting the glide path at 4 nm and 1,304 ft agl.
Touchdown occurred on runway 01 with a threshold speed of 119 kt, a touchdown distance of 252 m, a touchdown speed of 113 kt and a touchdown rate of minus 232 fpm; runway alignment at touchdown was perfect and local weather reported a temperature of 23 °C, wind 2 kt from 79 °, a cross-wind of 2 kt and a head-wind of 1 kt.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 595 m, representing 28 % of the runway length of 2,138 m, and the runway rollout alignment remained perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,868 nm, required 233 minutes of airborne time and consumed 8,914 kg of fuel.
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