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Arrival
Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 457 m instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 119 m past the target, landing at 576 m against the 457 m aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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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 11.1° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 171 kt, 12 kt under its 183 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 879 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 867 m of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,670 fpm on average to 879 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 2,538 m runway.
Rolled from 519 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.5 m left. Airborne 55 % 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.
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 3.4 nm, about 1,140 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 50 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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 30 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.4 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 (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 210° at 2 kt · 0 kt head · 1 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 125 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 38 ft, 93 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 576 m in, 271 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 450 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° 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 3,496 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, 3.6 m left 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.
Touched down 576 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-600 taxied from the parking area to runway 07 at TAPA V C Bird International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll the aircraft used 1,416 m of runway, representing 56 % of the available length, and lifted off at 138 kt. Ambient conditions were 32 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 56°, providing a 5 kt headwind and zero crosswind.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile north-east of TAPA V C Bird International Airport Osbourn, ascending from 979 ft asl to 39,986 ft asl - an increase of 39,006 ft - over 44 minutes while covering 332 nm.
Level cruise began 8 miles south-west of Stella (Rincon Municipio, Puerto Rico) and persisted for 115 minutes, during which 948 nm were flown.
Descent was initiated at latitude 20.0484038, longitude -83.931476, descending from 40,007 ft asl to 1,330 ft asl - a loss of 38,677 ft - in 21 minutes and traversing 203 nm.
The final approach to runway 12R at MMUN Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún was executed from the north-west, on a heading of 124.0° at 4 nm and 1,298 ft agl.
Landing on runway 12R, whose length is 3,498 m, occurred with a threshold speed slightly above target at 133 kt. Touchdown was recorded 160 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 122 kt, with a smooth touchdown rate of minus 132 fpm and a lateral deviation of 4.8 m from the centreline. Local weather reported 31 °C, wind 2 kt from 210°, a 2 kt crosswind and no headwind.
Runway rollout covered a distance of 1,063 m, equivalent to 30 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was described as very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 1,489nm, required 185 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 8,915 kg of fuel.
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