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Departure
Level the wings with coordinated aileron to hold bank angle near zero during the initial climb, starting from 6°.
What happened: Bank angle was elevated during the initial climb and excess bank usually persists into the second climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, wings level with bank angle near zero degrees.
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed back to 130 kt well before the gate.
What happened: Approach was fast through the stabilisation gate, and the threshold was crossed at 149 kt against the 130 kt target. Carrying that extra speed in usually carries the touchdown long, which it did here at 614 m against the 457 m target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 130 kt at the threshold
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 18 stages, 16 in the score
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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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline 7.3° off, against a 1° limit.
At the 500 ft gate: speed 38 kt FAST on the reference speed of 130 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,620 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 614 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 707-320 taxied from the parking area to runway 23L at EGCC Manchester Airport in 11 minutes, covering 2 nm, and then departed on runway 23L. Take-off used 1,611 m of runway (56 % of runway). Rotation was achieved at 165 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 17 °C, wind 6 kt from 080°, with a 3 kt crosswind and a 5 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 17 seconds, averaging 2,565 fpm and reaching 202 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,149 ft asl to 27,030 ft asl in 15 minutes, covering 91 nm, beginning overhead Mobberley. Cruise was maintained until the descent began.
Descent started from 27,233 ft asl and proceeded to 1,051 ft asl in 21 minutes, covering 94 nm. The descent began 4 miles west of Henllan and included brief level-offs at 3,700 ft asl and 3,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 28L at EIDW Dublin Airport began with a descent from 1,332 ft agl to 173 ft agl in 85 seconds. Stabilisation checks were performed at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. The checks that were met were gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope and wings level. The checks not met were on centreline (at one gate) and on speed (at one gate). Configuration changes occurred at 1,943 ft agl, when the landing gear was lowered at 196 kt, and at 1,026 ft agl, when final flap position 4 was set at 169 kt.
Landing was made on runway 28L, whose length is 2,620 m and which had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was well above target at 150 kt. The flare was described as great, although it started early. Touchdown occurred 203 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 140 kt, which was fast, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 315 fpm. Runway-touchdown alignment was perfect, and no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,362 m (52 % of runway), and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering 1 nm. The flight covered a total distance of 195 nm in 49 minutes and used 4,842 kg of fuel. Local weather at Dublin was temperature 13 °C, wind 14 kt from 150°, with a 12 kt crosswind and an 8 kt tailwind.
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