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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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 1,661 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,661 m of the 3,406 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 625 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Boeing 737-900 began with a taxi from the parking area to the runway at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The taxi took 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nm. The departure roll was from runway 16L, with a takeoff distance of 1,680 m, which accounted for 46% of the runway. The liftoff speed during takeoff was 163 kn.
During the enroute climb, the aircraft started climbing 1 mile southwest of SeaTac in Washington, United States. The climb took the aircraft from 1,356 ft above sea level to 35,900 ft above sea level, covering a total increase of 34,544 ft in 23 minutes and 127 nm.
The enroute level cruise commenced 8 miles west of Lyda Ranch Airstrip in Dufur, Oregon, lasting 7 minutes and covering 47 nm. The descent began 1 mile northwest of Culver Airport in Culver, Oregon, descending from 37,492 ft asl to 34,030 ft asl in 4 minutes over 34 nm.
Another enroute level cruise started 1 mile southwest of Juniper Air Park in Bend, Oregon, lasting 64 minutes and covering 512 nm. The final descent on the route began 10 miles east of Poso-Kern Co Famoso in California, descending from 34,708 ft asl to 2,223 ft asl in 25 minutes over 118 nm.
The aircraft made its final approach to runway 26R at Ontario International Airport, coming from the east at a heading of 270.0° at 4 nm and 1,278 ft above ground level. The landing on runway 26R was successful, with a touchdown point 210 m beyond the zone, a touchdown speed of 141 kn, and a touchdown rate of -220 ft/min. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.0 m from the centerline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 846 nm, taking 137 minutes and using 6,059 kg of fuel.
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