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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Slow down before tight turns
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: five 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,501 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 331 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Boeing 737-900 began with a 5-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at KMSP Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport. The departure roll on runway 30L covered 2,156 meters, which was 71% of the runway length, with a liftoff speed of 179 knots. The local weather at the time of takeoff was 4°C with a wind of 10 knots at 229°, resulting in a crosswind of 10 knots and a headwind of 3 knots.
After takeoff, the enroute climb began 1 mile northeast of Richfield, Minnesota, and reached an altitude of 36,617 feet, covering 127 nautical miles in 20 minutes. The level cruise phase of the flight started 4 miles east of Plainfield, Iowa, lasting 163 minutes and covering 1,228 nm. The descent phase began 66 miles north of Rio Lagartos, Estado de Yucatan, Mexico, descending from 37,702 ft to 5,477 ft in 16 minutes over a distance of 99 nm.
Following a brief level cruise, the descent phase resumed 9 miles east of Solferino, Estado de Quintana Roo, Mexico, descending from 4,677 ft to 4,051 ft over 8 nm in 2 minutes. Another short level cruise segment followed, before the final descent began 6 miles north of Leona Vicario, Estado de Quintana Roo, Mexico, descending from 3,108 ft to 1,285 ft over 12 nm in 4 minutes.
The final approach to runway 12R at MMUN Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún took place from the northwest, with the aircraft at 1,255 ft agl and a slightly misaligned approach by 5.2 m from the centerline. The landing on runway 12R at Cancún Airport had a good touchdown distance of 333 m, although the speed at touchdown was slightly above the target at 139 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,274 m, covering 36% of the runway length, with a slight misalignment of 11.0 m from the centerline during the rollout. After landing, the taxi to the parking area took 12 minutes, completing the flight that covered a total distance of 1,495 nm over 231 minutes and using 9,763 kg of fuel.
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