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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 130 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 265 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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.
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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: speed 88 kt FAST on the reference speed of 124 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed 24 kt FAST on the reference speed of 124 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 2,621 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 424 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-700 taxied from the parking area to runway 03 at PHLI Lihue Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 03. The aircraft used 932 m of runway, which is 47 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 136 kt. Local weather at departure was 29 °C with wind 8 kt from 060°, giving a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 7 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 15 seconds, averaging 2 525 fpm and reaching 189 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 991 ft asl to 40 986 ft asl in 43 minutes, covering 350 nm and beginning overhead PHLI Lihue.
Cruise was level at 41 000 ft asl for 200 minutes, covering 1 673 nm, starting from latitude 25.4199338 longitude -154.1434783.
Descent from 41 002 ft asl to 4 602 ft asl took 16 minutes over 115 nm, beginning 78 miles south-west of Anchor Bay. A level segment at 4 100 ft asl followed for 10 minutes, covering 42 nm, starting 1 mile south of Berkeley.
A further descent from 3 314 ft asl to 1 176 ft asl lasted 5 minutes and covered 22 nm, beginning 1 mile south of Davis.
Final approach to runway 17R at KSMF Sacramento International Airport descended from 1 308 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 87 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met. At 743 ft agl the aircraft was in final flap position 8 and was at 154 kt.
Landing on runway 17R was made with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 124 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 424 m down the runway at 117 kt, a speed judged good, with a touchdown rate of minus 266 fpm, rated fair. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 834 m, representing 32 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather at landing was 19 °C with wind 3 kt from 149°, giving a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 2 208 nm in 280 minutes and used 11 181 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 737-700 conducted the final approach to runway 17R at KSMF Sacramento International Airport and was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate, being more than 20 kt above VREF. Descent proceeded from 1,308 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 87 seconds and the aircraft was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and the threshold speed was good at 124 kt.
Touchdown occurred 422 m down the runway at a speed of 117 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 229 fpm that was rated fair. Runway touchdown alignment was very good; the total landing distance was 834 m, representing 32 % of the 2,621 m runway length.
Rollout alignment was perfect throughout the remaining distance.
To improve the already high score, focus on reducing the approach speed to within VREF by the 1,000 ft gate and refining flare technique to achieve a gentler touchdown rate.
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