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Arrival
Apply small, early rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline from touchdown onward.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 30 ft off the centreline during the landing roll, and by touchdown the offset had grown to 16 ft. A centreline deviation that appears on landing usually carries through to a larger offset at touchdown.
Watch for: Centreline marker: aircraft tracking straight over the runway centreline, not drifting to either side.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 16 stages, 14 in the score
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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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline 1.1° off, against a 1° limit and speed 40 kt FAST on the reference speed of 138 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,084 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,084 ft of the 9,486 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,262 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 departed Charlotte Douglas International Airport (KCLT) on runway 18C. The take-off roll was 5,932 ft, using 59 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 148 kt. Local weather was 71 °F with a wind of 9 kt from 107°, giving a 3 kt headwind and a 9 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 26 seconds at an average rate of 1,755 fpm, reaching 171 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,585 ft asl to 38,003 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 125 nm, beginning about 1 mile south of KCLT.
Cruise was level at 38,000 ft asl for 90 minutes, covering 673 nm, with the segment starting roughly 5 miles north of Darnell’s Landings Airport (45TN).
Descent began from 38,012 ft asl to 2,800 ft asl in 25 minutes, covering 133 nm, starting about 4 miles south of Council Bluffs Municipal Airport (KCBF). A level segment at 2,800 ft asl lasted 7 minutes over 26 nm, beginning 1 mile west of Elkhorn.
Final approach to runway 32L at Eppley Airfield (KOMA) started from 1,867 ft agl and descended to 758 ft agl in 79 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, and wings level; they were not met for centreline and speed at one gate each. The landing gear was lowered at 1,016 ft agl at 192 kt, and the final flap position 7 was selected at 745 ft agl at 159 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 32L, whose length is 9,486 ft. Threshold speed was 141 kt and the flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 1,261 ft down the runway at 135 kt, a little fast, with a descent rate of minus 154 fpm. The touchdown point was 17 ft off the centreline but otherwise well aligned; there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 4,824 ft, 51 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was 77 °F with a wind of 10 kt from 001°, giving an 8 kt headwind and a 6 kt crosswind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering 1 nm. The entire flight covered 968 nm in 156 minutes and consumed 11,332 lb of fuel.
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