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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 sooner on the approach so your speed is back to 117 kt well before the stabilisation gate.
What happened: This flight was fast at the stabilisation gate, then crossed the threshold high on a shallow descent and 30 kt above VREF; carrying that extra speed through to the threshold usually carries the touchdown long, and this flight touched down 514 m past the target point.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 117 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 · 15 stages, 13 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 4.7° off, against a 1° limit and speed 41.6 kt FAST on the reference speed of 117 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline 2.7° off, against a 1° limit and speed 31.5 kt FAST on the reference speed of 117 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 3,773 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 971 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 departed from runway 25C at VHHH Hong Kong International Airport. Takeoff was performed with a distance of 825 m, which was 23 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 128 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 30 °C, wind 15 kt from 009°, crosswind 13 kt, tailwind 7 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 12 seconds, averaging 3,238 fpm and reaching 192 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,009 ft asl to 2,326 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 13 nm while remaining overhead VHHH.
Descent began from 2,326 ft asl to 1,005 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 5 nm, starting 2 miles east of Tuen Mun.
During final approach to runway 25L at VHHH, descent was from 874 ft agl to 119 ft agl in 85 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, and wings level; they were not met for on centreline and on speed. Configuration on final was flap position 8 at 990 ft agl with a speed of 167 kt.
Landing on runway 25L (runway length 3,773 m) occurred with a threshold height of 73 ft agl, which was well above target, and a threshold speed of 148 kt, which was too high. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touching down. Touchdown point was 553 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 128 kt, noted as a little fast. Touchdown rate was good at minus 163 fpm. Runway touchdown position was misaligned by 12.8 m from centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 27 °C, wind 13 kt from 009°, crosswind 11 kt, tailwind 6 kt. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,354 m, which was 36 % of the runway. Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 11.3 m from centreline. Taxiing from the runway to parking took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 24 nm, lasted 8 minutes, and used 375 kg of fuel.
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