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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.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,544 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,544 m of the 2,443 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 392 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 9 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-MAX8, then departed from runway 26 at Linz-Hörsching Airport / Vogler Air Base, with a takeoff distance of 1,401 meters, which accounted for 54% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 161 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 14°C, with a wind speed of 3 knots at 210°. The crosswind was 3 knots, while the headwind was 2 knots. As the aircraft took off, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead Oftering, Austria. The climb took 18 minutes and covered a distance of 113 nautical miles, with the aircraft ascending from 2,046 feet above sea level to 37,309 feet above sea level, an increase of 35,263 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, which started 1 mile south west of Lovrenc na Pohorju, Slovenia. This phase of the flight lasted 25 minutes and covered a distance of 187 nautical miles. The enroute descent began 3 miles south of Trilj, Croatia, and took 29 minutes to complete, with the aircraft descending from 37,283 feet above sea level to 1,489 feet above sea level, a decrease of 35,795 feet. The descent covered a distance of 144 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 25 at Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport was made from the east, with the aircraft heading 251.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,333 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 25 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 383 meters, which was within the acceptable range. However, the touchdown speed of 141 knots was slightly faster than desired, and the touchdown rate was very heavy at -954 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was also misaligned by 12.3 meters from the centreline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 16°C, with a wind speed of 9 knots at 270°. The crosswind was 3 knots, while the headwind was 8 knots. The total landing distance was 1,451 meters, which accounted for 59% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was significantly misaligned by 30.6 meters from the centreline.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 3 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 452 nautical miles, which was completed in 82 minutes, and the aircraft used 2,893 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Boeing 737-MAX8 aircraft successfully landed at LIBD Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport, but the landing was not without its issues. The final approach to runway 25 from the east was initiated at a height of 1,333 feet above ground level (agl) and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway. The aircraft was heading 251.0° at the time of the approach.
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway at a speed of 141 knots, which was slightly faster than the target speed. The touchdown distance of 383 meters was within the acceptable range, indicating that the pilot had maintained control of the aircraft during the landing. However, the touchdown rate was excessively high at -954 feet per minute (fpm), which could have put additional stress on the aircraft's landing gear.
One of the major issues with this landing was the runway touchdown position, which was misaligned by 12.3 meters from the centerline. This could have made it difficult for the pilot to maintain control of the aircraft during the rollout phase. Additionally, the runway rollout alignment was significantly misaligned by 30.6 meters from the centerline, which could have increased the risk of the aircraft veering off the runway.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were relatively calm, with a temperature of 16°C and a wind speed of 9 knots from 270°. The crosswind component was minimal at 3 knots, while the headwind component was 8 knots. These conditions would not have significantly impacted the landing, but they could have affected the aircraft's performance during the rollout phase.
Overall, while the Boeing 737-MAX8 aircraft successfully landed at LIBD Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport, the landing was not without its issues. The pilot could have done a better job of maintaining control of the aircraft during the rollout phase, and the excessive touchdown rate could have put additional stress on the aircraft's landing gear.
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