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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 1.7° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 1.9° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Raise the nose more slowly in the flare and stop as soon as the sink is checked; if it balloons, hold the attitude.
What happened: The flare ballooned, with 996 fpm of sink returning after the arrest; a balloon like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown, as it did here at 386 fpm.
Watch for: The runway ahead: the aircraft still sinking gently towards it through the flare, never rising.
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 2,471 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,471 m of the 2,847 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,216 m past the threshold — beyond 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 10 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-MAX8, then departed from runway 24R at LEPA Palma de Mallorca Airport. The takeoff distance was 1,806 meters, which accounted for 57% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 158 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 32 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 8 knots at 219 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 3 knots and a headwind of 8 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 2 miles southeast of Palma, and climbed from an altitude of 1,011 feet above sea level to 38,460 feet above sea level, an increase of 37,449 feet, in 20 minutes and covering a distance of 112 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, starting 2 miles northwest of Vilanova i la Geltru, and lasted for 78 minutes, covering a distance of 566 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting overhead Hem, and descended from 37,834 feet above sea level to 9,972 feet above sea level, a decrease of 27,862 feet, in 14 minutes and covering a distance of 84 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, starting overhead Oostvoorne, and lasted for 5 minutes, covering a distance of 24 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, starting 7 miles northwest of Noordwijk-Binnen, and descended from 9,314 feet above sea level to 1,292 feet above sea level, a decrease of 8,021 feet, in 9 minutes and covering a distance of 17 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 18C at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was made from the north, heading 183.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,274 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 18C, which had a length of 2,847 meters. The threshold height at 90 feet above ground level was significantly above target, while the threshold speed was slightly above target at 149 knots.
The touchdown point was 760 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 134 knots, which was good. However, the touchdown rate was hard at -452 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 24.7 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 12 knots at 240 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 10 knots and a headwind of 7 knots.
The total landing distance was 2,347 meters, which accounted for 82% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 23.8 meters from the centreline. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 6 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 813 nautical miles, taking 142 minutes, and the aircraft used 4,842 kilograms of fuel.
The Boeing 737-MAX8 aircraft successfully landed at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, but the landing was not without its challenges. The final approach to runway 18C was initiated from the north, with the aircraft heading 183.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,274 feet above ground level (agl). The landing was executed on a runway with a length of 2,847 meters.
The threshold height at 90 feet agl was significantly above the target, indicating that the aircraft was higher than expected when reaching the threshold of the runway. However, the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 149 knots, suggesting that the aircraft was maintaining a suitable speed for landing. The touchdown point was 760 meters beyond the touchdown zone, which is a significant deviation from the intended landing spot.
The touchdown speed of 134 knots was within the acceptable range, indicating that the pilot had successfully managed the aircraft's descent and speed. However, the touchdown rate was hard at -452 feet per minute (fpm), which may have contributed to the aircraft's misaligned landing. The runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 24.7 meters from the centerline, which could have been caused by the hard touchdown and subsequent loss of control.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were relatively calm, with a temperature of 18°C and wind speeds of 12 knots at 240°. The crosswind was 10 knots, and the headwind was 7 knots, which may have contributed to the aircraft's misaligned landing. The total landing distance was 2,347 meters, which is 82% of the runway length, indicating that the aircraft had sufficient runway remaining for a safe stop.
The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 23.8 meters from the centerline, which suggests that the pilot may have struggled to maintain control of the aircraft during the rollout phase. Overall, while the landing was successful, it was not without its challenges, and the pilot may have benefited from additional training or experience to improve their skills in handling the Boeing 737-MAX8 in challenging weather conditions.
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