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Hold a little more back pressure through the last of the flare to arrest the sink before 251 fpm develops.
What happened: Touchdown sink rate was 251 fpm, a firm arrival with no other fault on this landing to account for it.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: minimal sink at touchdown
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 1,926 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,926 m of the 3,564 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 378 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxied from the parking area to runway 31C at KMDW Chicago Midway International Airport, covering approximately 1 nm in a duration of 5 minutes.
During the departure roll on runway 31C, the aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 1,084 m, representing 61 % of the available runway, and achieved liftoff at 151 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 26 °C with wind from 260° at 7 kt, including a 5-kt crosswind component and a 4-kt headwind.
The climb commenced 1 mile east of Summit, Illinois, with the airplane climbing from 1,608 ft asl to 36,860 ft asl, an altitude gain of 35,252 ft achieved in 20 minutes while covering 132 nm.
Level cruise began 2 miles south of IN46 Butler Field, Rockville, Indiana, and persisted for 110 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 837 nm.
Descent operations started 1 mile southwest of Pine Island Center, Florida, with a reduction from 36,999 ft asl to 1,319 ft asl, a loss of 35,680 ft over 20 minutes and a distance of 110 nm.
The final approach to runway 09 at KMIA Miami International Airport was conducted from the west, on a heading of 87.0°, at 4 nm and 1,297 ft agl.
Landing on runway 09, which is 3,555 m long, occurred with a threshold speed slightly above target at 151 kt. Touchdown was recorded at 371 m down the runway, with a speed of 149 kt and a descent rate of minus 272 fpm; runway-touchdown alignment was reported as very good. Local weather at the time was 33 °C, wind from 110° at 11 kt, with a 4-kt crosswind and a 10-kt headwind.
The total landing distance measured 1,837 m, equivalent to 52 % of the runway length, and rollout alignment was described as perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that lasted 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,087 nm, required 159 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 5,640 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 entered the final approach to runway 09 at KMIA from the west on a heading of 87.0° at 4 nm and 1,297 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 151 kt.
Touchdown occurred 371 m down the runway, with a touchdown speed of 149 kt described as a little fast and a touchdown rate of minus 272 fpm judged fair; runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The rollout used a total landing distance of 1,837 m, representing 52 % of the 3,555 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
With a score of 98.6 % the landing was strong; refining speed control to bring touchdown speed closer to target and smoothing the flare to reduce the descent rate will tighten the already high performance.
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