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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Hold the aim point and wait for the speed to bleed before raising the nose, starting the flare within the normal band instead of 61 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 61 ft, 16 ft earlier than the normal band.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: start the flare within the normal flare band
See Arrival Landing
You crossed the threshold slow. Without the speed there is little energy left to round out with, so the flare comes up short and the touchdown tends to be firm - and that feels exactly like flaring too late. Resist the fix that feels natural, flaring earlier: it bleeds off more speed and makes the next landing firmer still. Fly the approach speed all the way to the threshold, and the flare has something to work with.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 139 kt, 8 kt below the 147 kt target, and lifted off at 147 kt 2.0 s later, the nose coming up at 5.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 177 kt, 7 kt under its 184 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 882 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 908 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,290 fpm on average to 882 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 2,276 m runway.
Rolled from 71 m in, never more than 1.3 m off the centreline. Airborne 49 % 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 4 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 100 ft above 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 24× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 15 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.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −4 kt and +28 kt on the approach speed of 131 kt.
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 held the target profile well. The flare began at 61 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 347 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 000° at 5 kt · 4 kt tail · 0 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 131 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 35 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 high, at 61 ft, 245 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 347 m in, close to 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 870 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° 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 3,043 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.1 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.3 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 347 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 16 at CYZF Yellowknife International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Takeoff was performed on runway 16. The aircraft used 1,113 m of runway, 49 % of the available length, and rotated at 139 kt. Outside air temperature was -2 °C with wind 3 kt from 340°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 20 seconds, averaging 2,245 fpm and reaching 185 kt at the top of the segment.
Climb continued from 1,607 ft asl to 38,979 ft asl in 39 minutes, covering 311 nm and beginning about 1 mile west of Yellowknife.
The aircraft level-flew at 39,000 ft asl for 185 minutes, covering 1,463 nm, starting 38 miles west of CKV4 North of Sixty Airport Obre Lake.
Descent from 38,962 ft asl to 2,404 ft asl was completed in 19 minutes over 140 nm, beginning 23 miles south-west of CDT9 Detour Lake Airport Detour Lake Mine.
Final approach to runway 18 at CYVO Val-d’Or Airport began with a descent from 1,338 ft agl to 45 ft agl in 95 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 6,747 ft agl while the aircraft was at 268 kt. Final flap position 8 was selected at 1,465 ft agl with a speed of 158 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 18. Runway length is 3,043 m; the threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 133 kt. Flare was described as great, starting early. Touchdown occurred 346 m down the runway at 126 kt with a smooth rate of -124 fpm. The touchdown point was 4.3 m off the centreline. Local weather was 11 °C, wind 5 kt from 360°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 4 kt tailwind. No bounce was observed.
Total landing distance was 889 m, 29 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 1,920 nm in 249 minutes and used 10,871 kg of fuel.
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