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Speed on the slow side
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Hold the nose until reaching 156 kt, letting speed build fully before rotating.
What happened: Rotation began at 148 kt, 8 kt before the 156 kt target. Climb speed later settled slow of target in Climb 3.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the 156 kt rotation target.
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 143 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 152 kt against a target of 143 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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 1,817 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,817 m of the 2,588 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 530 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 20R at KSNA John Wayne Orange County International Airport, a movement that lasted 8 minutes and covered 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 20R, the Boeing 737-800 accelerated through a takeoff distance of 1,149 m, representing 66 % of the runway, and lifted off at 148 kt; ambient temperature was 24 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 240°, a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile southwest of KSNA, with the aircraft climbing from 972 ft asl to 35,946 ft asl-a gain of 34,974 ft-over 23 minutes while covering 152 nm.
Level cruise began about 2 miles northwest of Fuller Acres and continued for 80 minutes, during which the flight covered 633 nm.
Descent was initiated roughly 3 miles southeast of Gresham, Oregon, descending from 35,396 ft asl to 1,765 ft asl, a loss of 33,630 ft in 28 minutes and spanning 149 nm.
The final approach to runway 16R at KSEA Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was flown from the north, on a heading of 180.0° at 4 nm and 1,339 ft agl.
Landing on runway 16R, which is 2,588 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 153 kt; the aircraft touched down 117 m beyond the touchdown zone at 147 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 254 fpm and perfect runway-alignment; local conditions were 16 °C, wind 6 kt from 230°, a 5 kt cross-wind and a 4 kt head-wind.
The rollout distance measured 1,740 m, representing 67 % of the runway, and alignment remained perfect throughout the deceleration phase.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a taxi-in of 6 minutes covering 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 942 nm, required 145 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 5,920 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 737-800 entered the final approach to runway 16R at KSEA from the north on a heading of 180.0° at 4 nm and 1,339 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits, and the local weather was 16 °C with wind 6 kt from 230°, giving a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 4 kt head-wind component.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a speed of 153 kt, slightly above the target, and the touchdown point was recorded 117 m beyond the touchdown zone, with a good threshold height.
Touchdown occurred at 147 kt, a little fast, and the vertical speed was -254 fpm, rated as fair. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The aircraft rolled out over a total landing distance of 1,740 m, representing 67 % of the 2,588 m runway, and rollout alignment remained perfect.
To tighten performance, aim to achieve the target threshold speed and bring the touchdown point inside the designated zone, while moderating the final approach speed toward the VREF value. This will help maintain the high score while reducing the minor excesses observed.
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