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Arrival
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 4.5° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
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 · 14 stages, 12 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: glideslope 4.6° against the runway's 3°, centreline 14.3° off, against a 1° limit and speed 33.5 kt FAST on the reference speed of 122 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate 1,419 fpm, more than the glideslope needed, glideslope 4.8° against the runway's 3° and centreline 5.6° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,102 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 328 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-600 departed VNKT Tribhuvan International Airport on runway 20. The take-off roll was 1,073 m, 39 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 122 kt. Local weather was 23 °C with wind 4 kt from 270°, giving a 3 kt cross-wind and 1 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 15 seconds, averaging 2,456 fpm and reaching 170 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 5,255 ft asl to 26,980 ft asl in 9 minutes, covering 66 nm while remaining overhead VNKT.
Cruise was maintained at 27,000 ft asl for 10 minutes, covering 80 nm, beginning 4 mi south-west of VQPR Phaplu Airport. Descent began from 26,990 ft asl to 7,760 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 76 nm, starting 13 mi north-west of Gyalshing.
On final approach to runway 15 at VQPR Paro International Airport, descent from 2,025 ft agl to 44 ft agl took 92 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway met gear down, landing flap, and wings level; they did not meet sink-rate, glideslope, centreline, and speed at one gate. The landing gear was down at 1,869 ft agl at 258 kt, and final flap position 8 was selected at 1,242 ft agl at 183 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 15. Threshold speed was 121 kt, touchdown speed 117 kt, and touchdown rate -193 fpm. Touchdown distance was 328 m, and total landing distance was 728 m, 35 % of the 2,102 m runway. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.5 m from the centreline, but rollout alignment was perfect and no bounce occurred. Local weather at landing was 17 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and no head-wind.
The flight covered 228 nm in 35 minutes and used 2,022 kg of fuel.
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