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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 7.5 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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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 2,310 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 278 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport took 13 minutes and covered a distance of 6 nautical miles. The Boeing 737-800 then began its departure roll on runway 07L, utilizing 54% of the available runway length to achieve a takeoff distance of 1,704 meters. Liftoff speed was reached at 159 knots, with a local temperature of 31°C and wind conditions of 11 knots at 40°, resulting in a crosswind of 8 knots and a headwind of 7 knots.
The enroute climb commenced 1 mile east of the airport, with the aircraft ascending from 2,172 feet above sea level to 31,535 feet in 7 minutes, covering a distance of 74 nautical miles. This was followed by a 9-minute level cruise, starting 4 miles west of Paloma Ranch Airport, during which the aircraft maintained a steady altitude and covered 90 nautical miles. The enroute descent began 10 miles northwest of Winterhaven, California, and lasted 15 minutes, with the aircraft descending from 32,237 feet to 1,438 feet in a distance of 121 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 27 at San Diego International Airport was initiated from the east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 286.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,411 feet above ground level.
The Boeing 737-800 landed on runway 27 at San Diego International Airport, utilizing 49% of the available runway length, with a touchdown distance of 279 meters. The touchdown speed was 130 knots, and the touchdown rate was -470 feet per minute, indicating a hard touchdown. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 10.2 meters. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile in 3 minutes. The total flight distance was 297 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 47 minutes and a fuel consumption of 2,586 kilograms.
The Boeing 737-800 touched down on runway 27 at KSAN San Diego International Airport with a good threshold height, allowing the crew to maintain a stable approach. The threshold speed of 137 kt was also within acceptable limits, indicating a well-executed approach. The aircraft's touchdown distance of 279 m was within the desired range, and the touchdown speed of 130 kt was also satisfactory.
However, the touchdown rate of -470 fpm was slightly harder than desired, which may have contributed to the slight misalignment of the runway touchdown position by 10.2 m from the centreline. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 21 °C and a headwind of 11 kt, were favorable for the landing. The crosswind component was minimal at 3 kt, which further supported a stable approach.
The total landing distance of 1,036 m was 49% of the runway length, indicating a relatively short landing. Although the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.3 m from the centreline, the overall performance of the crew and the aircraft was satisfactory, earning a score of 93.6%.
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