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Arrival
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 564 m past the threshold, 107 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.
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 · 14 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: speed 52.4 kt FAST on the reference speed of 136 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 2,960 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 564 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-900 departed OTHH Hamad International Airport on runway 34R. The take-off roll used 1,935 m, about 40 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 146 kt. Local weather was 36 °C with a wind 3 kt from 030°, giving a 2 kt headwind and a 2 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 22 seconds, averaging 2,047 fpm and reaching 184 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,012 ft asl to 38,777 ft asl in 45 minutes, covering 342 nm, beginning about 1 mile north of OTHH.
Cruise was level at 39,000 ft asl for 107 minutes, covering 903 nm, starting 12 miles west of FM04 Gulf of Oman Moving Carrier - CVN78. Descent began from 38,887 ft asl to 1,333 ft asl in 8 minutes, covering 50 nm, starting 18 miles west of VAJJ Juhu Aerodrome Mumbai.
On final approach to runway 27 at VABB Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, descent from 1,348 ft agl to 42 ft agl took 86 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 one gate. Configuration was landing gear down at 25,960 ft agl, 495 kt; final flap position 8 was selected at 631 ft agl, 159 kt.
Landing was on runway 27, whose length is 2,960 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 144 kt. The flare was described as very good, starting early. Touchdown occurred 145 m beyond the touchdown zone at 132 kt, with a descent rate of minus 182 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,211 m, 41 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at VABB was 30 °C with wind 2 kt from 180°, giving a 0 kt headwind and a 2 kt crosswind. Taxiing from the runway to parking took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 1,303 nm in 166 minutes and used 8,181 kg of fuel.
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