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Hold the aim point and wait for the proper flare height before you start rotating; let the runway come up to you rather than anticipating it.
What happened: The flare began early, well above the normal flare band, and touchdown followed at 641 m past the threshold, 184 m beyond the 457 m target. Starting the flare early like this usually carries the touchdown long.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the normal flare band, then touchdown distance against 457 m.
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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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 1,653 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,653 m of the 2,310 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 641 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 departed KSAT on runway 04. The take-off roll used 1,516 m, which is 58 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 140 kt. Local weather was 29 °C with an 8 kt wind from 032°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and an 8 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 19 seconds, averaging 2,155 fpm and reaching 166 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,663 ft asl to 37,993 ft asl in 24 minutes, covering 154 nm, with a brief level-off at 20,000 ft asl.
Cruise was level at 38,000 ft asl for 107 minutes, covering 701 nm. Descent began from 37,963 ft asl to 1,562 ft asl in 32 minutes, covering 166 nm, with a brief level-off at 12,000 ft asl.
On final approach to runway 27 at KSAN, descent from 1,587 ft agl to 48 ft agl took 98 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Gear was down at 2,369 ft agl at 181 kt; final flap 7 was selected at 1,285 ft agl at 156 kt.
Landing on runway 27 used a runway length of 2,310 m. The threshold speed was 141 kt. The flare began early and was described as great. Touchdown occurred 225 m beyond the touchdown zone at 136 kt, a little fast, with an excellent vertical rate of minus 89 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,575 m, 68 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 1,028 nm in 179 minutes and consumed 6,578 kg of fuel.
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