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Old 17th Aug 2015, 21:12
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Monarch Man
 
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The B777 low drag/ low noise approach is flap 5 gear up. In still air this can be maintained to 2000ft (about 7 miles) on a 3 degree approach. At this point the landing gear is lowered and flap 20 selected. Airspeed reduces and at about 1500ft (5 miles) landing flap can be selected. The speed then reduces to Vref+5 just before 1000ft, which is the first 'approach gate' for a stabilised approach. A tailwind or headwind would move the gear selection point up or down the approach +/- a mile.
The EK stabilisation criteria is a little more conservative, the first gate is 1500 AAL, and the low drag profile at high LW in a 300ER is F15, at F5 the drag doesn't overcome the intertia of landing at 240-250T, which invariably happens into Brum.
Gear down F20 at 2000AAL, and landing flap selected by 1500.
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