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Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 142 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 149 kt against a target of 142 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 142 kt at the threshold.
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.
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 3,641 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 541 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 22R at KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 22R, the aircraft used 1,743 m of runway, representing 60 % of the available length, and lifted off at 170 kt; ambient temperature was 30 °C with wind 8 kt from 230°, a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 7 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced 1 mile east of Elizabeth, New Jersey, with the airplane ascending from 901 ft asl to 30,728 ft asl, a gain of 29,828 ft achieved in 24 minutes while covering 163 nm.
Cruise began overhead Framingham, Massachusetts, and continued for 365 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 2,755 nm at level flight.
Descent started over Wenvoe, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, with a reduction from 31,009 ft asl to 1,361 ft asl, a loss of 29,647 ft in 24 minutes and a distance of 133 nm.
The final approach to runway 27L at EGLL London Heathrow Airport was flown from the east, on a heading of 270.0° at 4 nm and 1,261 ft agl; local weather reported a temperature of 29 °C, wind 5 kt from 200°, a 5 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
Landing on runway 27L, which is 3,652 m long, was executed with a threshold speed of 150 kt; touchdown occurred 137 m beyond the touchdown zone at 142 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 187 fpm and perfect runway-centerline alignment, and the total landing roll measured 1,271 m, 35 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was recorded as very good as the aircraft decelerated to a stop.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 3,059 nm, took 391, and consumed 18,568 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 737-900 entered the final approach to runway 27L at EGLL from the east on a heading of 270.0° at 4 nm and 1,261 ft agl. At the 1,000 ft gate the approach was assessed as stabilised, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
At threshold the height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 150 kt. The aircraft crossed the threshold and the flare resulted in a touchdown point 137 m beyond the touchdown zone. Touchdown speed was 142 kt, noted as a little fast, while the vertical rate was good at minus 187 fpm and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
Touchdown occurred with the aircraft aligned precisely on the centreline, the speed remaining slightly above the ideal VREF and the descent rate remaining within the acceptable range. The landing was otherwise clean and within the expected parameters.
Rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,271 m, representing 35 % of the 3,652 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
Coaching should focus on reducing the touchdown speed a few knots to match the target VREF and adjusting the flare to achieve a touchdown point nearer the 300 m (1,000 ft) aim point, which will further optimise runway usage.
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