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Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 113 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 288 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,803 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 425 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 09 at VABB Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was on runway 09, using 1,611 m (49 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 145 kt. Local weather was 34 °C with wind 2 kt from 030°, giving a 2 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 24 seconds, averaging 2,009 fpm and reaching 184 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,020 ft asl to 30,321 ft asl in 26 minutes, covering 190 nm, starting 1 mile north of Mumbai.
Cruise was level between 30,600 ft asl and 39,000 ft asl for 285 minutes, covering 2,431 nm, beginning 10 miles north of Jalna.
Descent began from 38,981 ft asl to 1,314 ft asl in 26 minutes, covering 195 nm, starting 37 miles north of ZSTX Tunxi International Airport Huangshan.
Final approach to runway 34L at ZSPD Shanghai Pudong International Airport descended from 1,361 ft agl to 48 ft agl in 102 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 2,935 ft agl at 266 kt; final flap position 8 was selected at 1,095 ft agl at 159 kt.
Landing on runway 34L, runway length 3,803 m, had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly above target at 140 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 425 m down the runway at 132 kt, a little fast, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 288 fpm. Touchdown position was misaligned by 8.8 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 781 m (21 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 13.8 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 28 °C with wind 7 kt from 330°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and a 7 kt head-wind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 2,824 nm in 344 minutes and used 15,794 kg of fuel.
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