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Keep the wings level on final
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.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,562 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 517 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight on the Boeing 777-300 began with a 7-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at Cape Town International Airport (FACT). The departure roll on runway 01 covered a distance of 826 meters, which was 26% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was 162 knots. The local weather at the time of departure was 24°C with a wind speed of 9 knots coming from 330°, resulting in a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 8 knots.
The enroute climb started over Cape Town and took the aircraft from 1,160 feet above sea level to 38,003 feet above sea level, covering a distance of 130 nautical miles in 18 minutes. The enroute level cruise began 5 miles south of Vredendal Airport (FAXA) and lasted 165 minutes, covering a total distance of 1,311 nautical miles.
The enroute descent started 20 miles north of Porto Amboim (FNPA) in Angola, descending from 37,614 feet above sea level to 2,054 feet above sea level over a period of 19 minutes and covering a distance of 98 nautical miles.
The landing took place on runway 23 at 4th Of February Airport (FNLU), with a runway length of 3,562 meters. The aircraft was at a height of 32 feet above ground level at the threshold of the runway, with a speed of 128 knots. The touchdown occurred 519 meters from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 121 knots and a Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) reading of -147 feet per minute. The local weather at the time of landing was 0°C with calm winds.
The total landing distance was 1,373 meters, which was 39% of the runway length. After landing, it took 7 minutes to taxi from the runway to the parking area, covering a distance of 1 nautical mile.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 1,549 nautical miles over a duration of 278 minutes and consumed 24,552 kilograms of fuel.
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