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Slow down before tight turns
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,635 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 452 m touchdown sits inside 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 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, then departed from runway 13R at KSAT San Antonio International Airport. The takeoff distance was 1,635 meters, which accounted for 63% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 160 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 7 knots at 167 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 4 knots and a headwind of 6 knots. The aircraft began its enroute climb overhead KSAT San Antonio International Airport, rising from an altitude of 1,803 feet above sea level to 36,503 feet above sea level, an increase of 34,700 feet in 16 minutes and covering a distance of 155 nautical miles.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started overhead TX28 Dewberry Heliport Katy, Texas. This phase lasted for 25 minutes and covered a distance of 569 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 7 miles southeast of 1MO7 Hines Airport Gorin, Missouri. The descent from 36,550 feet above sea level to 2,509 feet above sea level, a decrease of 34,041 feet in 22 minutes and covering a distance of 197 nautical miles.
The aircraft entered another level cruise phase, this time starting 1 mile northwest of Darien, Illinois, and lasting for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The final descent phase began overhead Western Springs, Illinois, and resulted in a decrease of 596 feet in altitude in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 13C at KMDW Chicago Midway International Airport, approaching from the northwest at a heading of 122.0 degrees and at an altitude of 1,084 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown distance of 453 meters, which was good, and a touchdown speed of 136 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was fair at -228 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius. The total landing distance was 1,082 meters, which accounted for 66% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 937 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 74 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 6,293 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft successfully landed on runway 13C at KMDW Chicago Midway International Airport, achieving a high score of 99.5%. The final approach was conducted from the northwest, heading 122.0° at a distance of 3 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,084 feet above ground level (agl).
The aircraft's performance during the landing was satisfactory, with a good threshold height and speed of 143 knots. The touchdown distance of 453 meters was also within acceptable limits. However, the touchdown speed of 136 knots was slightly higher than the desired speed, indicating that the pilot may have needed to apply more braking force upon touchdown.
The aircraft's descent rate was fair at -228 feet per minute (fpm), which is a moderate rate of descent. This suggests that the pilot may have been able to maintain a more stable approach if they had adjusted their descent rate accordingly.
Upon touchdown, the aircraft's runway alignment was perfect, indicating that the pilot had successfully aligned the aircraft with the runway centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were favorable, with a temperature of 27°C.
The total landing distance of 1,082 meters was 66% of the runway length, which is a relatively short distance. This suggests that the pilot had successfully managed the aircraft's speed and descent rate to achieve a smooth and controlled landing. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect, indicating that the pilot had successfully controlled the aircraft's rotation and braking during the rollout phase.
Overall, the landing was successful, and the pilot demonstrated good control and management of the aircraft during the approach and landing phases.
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