Approach and landing on runway 06 - the Kaagbaan - at Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport, Netherlands. AMS / EHAM. With ATC (air traffic control) audio and ATIS (airport terminal information service) audio. Captains view Airbus A320. Filmed in 4k.
Approach starts in the area of The Hague (Den Haag) city, passes Scheveningen and the North Sea beaches of Katwijk aan See, continues via Rijnsburg, the Kaag Lakes and the Westeinderplassen (Westend Lakes) near the city of Aalsmeer.
Because there are no no taxiways to the threshold, runway 06 is only used for landing.
Special for the ILS (instrument landing system) approach to runway 06 is that pilots are required to fly exactly 160 knots (296 kilometers per hour) until 4 nautical miles (7.4 kilometers) before landing. This is similar to London-Heathrow and other big airports and allows a maximum number of approaches per hour.
During the filmed approach, the pilots flew a low drag / noise approach and minimized fuel consumption. They flew with flaps 3 and a speed of 160 knots until an altitude of 1200 feet and 4 nautical miles before touch down, then they reduced the thrust to idle, extended the landing gear and the flaps to full as final landing configuration. At about 1000 feet above the ground, the flight was fully stabilized on speed and thrust in final landing configuration and "ready" for the landing.
The airplane altimeters show at Schiphol airport -11 feet (minus 4 meters). This is below mean sea level (MSL) and very unusual because most places of the world and even most airports are located at an elevation at or above mean sea level. Reason is that Schiphol airport lies on the bottom of the old Haarlemmer Lake. The lake was drained 1852 and the airport is in use at the same location since 1916.
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