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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 9.7 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,835 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 225 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.76 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Stuttgart Airport (EDDS), the Boeing 737-700 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the designated runway, a process that took approximately 3 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. As the aircraft reached the runway threshold, it initiated its departure roll on runway 07, utilizing 878 meters, or 29% of the runway's length, to achieve liftoff at a speed of 140 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 15°C, with a gentle wind blowing at 6 knots from a direction of 320°.
As the aircraft climbed away from Stuttgart, it transitioned into an enroute climb phase, which began overhead the airport and continued for 8 minutes, during which time it ascended from 2,080 feet above sea level to 23,005 feet, a vertical increase of 20,925 feet. This climb phase covered a distance of 45 nautical miles. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 16 minutes and covered 126 nautical miles, before beginning its descent phase. The descent from 22,637 feet to 2,040 feet took 7 minutes and covered 45 nautical miles, with the aircraft passing overhead the town of Sosa in Saxony. A brief level cruise phase followed, lasting 2 minutes and covering 7 nautical miles, before the aircraft began its final approach to runway 04 at Dresden Airport (EDDC).
The final approach was initiated from the southwest, with the aircraft flying at a heading of 40.0° and an altitude of 1,275 feet above ground level. The landing was executed on runway 04, which featured a length of 2,542 meters. Although the threshold speed was slightly above the target value at 133 knots, the touchdown distance of 226 meters was considered good. However, the touchdown speed of 130 knots was a little fast, and the touchdown rate was heavy at -737 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was also misaligned by 10.3 meters from the centerline. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 231 nautical miles, and the aircraft used 78 kilograms of fuel during the flight, which lasted a total of 39 minutes.
The Boeing 737-700 touched down on runway 04 at EDDC Dresden Airport with a slightly above-target threshold speed of 133 kt. The approach quality was good, with a well-executed final approach from the south west, heading 40.0° at 4 nm and 1,275 ft above ground level. The threshold height was satisfactory, allowing for a smooth touchdown.
However, the touchdown characteristics were not ideal, with a touchdown speed of 130 kt being a little fast. This resulted in a very heavy touchdown rate of -737 fpm. The runway touchdown position was also misaligned by 10.3 m from the centreline, which could have contributed to the heavy touchdown rate. The touchdown distance of 226 m was good, but the overall performance was impacted by the excessive speed and heavy touchdown rate.
The rollout phase was also slightly marred by a runway rollout alignment that was misaligned by 9.6 m from the centreline. The total landing distance of 1,109 m was 44% of the runway length, which is within acceptable limits. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 15 °C and a wind of 7 kt at 329°, did not appear to have a significant impact on the landing. Overall, the landing scored 89.3%, indicating a good but not exceptional performance.
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