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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 1,581 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 492 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Boeing 737-800 began with a 2-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at NFTF Fua'amotu International Airport. The departure roll on runway 29 covered a distance of 1,011 meters, which was 38% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed during takeoff was 146 knots. The local weather at the time of departure was 26°C, with a 3-knot wind coming from 119° resulting in a 3-knot tailwind.
The enroute climb started 1 mile south of Malapo (Tongatapu, Tonga) and ascended from 1,122 feet above sea level to 40,030 feet above sea level, covering a total distance of 261 nautical miles in 38 minutes. The subsequent level cruise phase began at coordinates Latitude: -25.125881 and Longitude: -177.3146991 and lasted for 165 minutes, covering 1,292 nautical miles.
The enroute descent started 9 miles east of Haast (West Coast, New Zealand) and descended from 39,778 feet above sea level to 5,545 feet above sea level, covering a distance of 94 nautical miles in 13 minutes. The landing took place on runway 26 at NZMO Manapouri Airport, which has a runway length of 1,581 meters. The height at threshold was 31 feet above ground level, with a speed at threshold of 133 knots.
The touchdown occurred 491 meters from the threshold with a touchdown speed of 127 knots and a vertical speed indicator reading of -186 feet per minute. The local weather at the time of landing was 4°C, with a 2-knot wind coming from 295° resulting in a 2-knot headwind. The total landing distance was 966 meters, which was 61% of the runway length. The taxi from the runway to the parking area took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 1,681 nautical miles, took 232 minutes to complete, and consumed 10,193 kilograms of fuel.
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