Aircraft performance explained in an appand useful tools.
An electronic reference guide for professional airline pilots flying the Boeing 737, but also useful for pilots of other large civil twin-jets, dispatchers and student pilots — from dispatch until the final landing.
B737 Performance Handbook: from book to app
This site enables you to preview and to order the B737 Performance Handbook app, which originally saw light as a hardcopy book (B737 PRH — Performance Reference Handbook) many years ago but is now available as an iPad/iPhone app.
It is written by an airline pilot with an aeronautical engineering degree who is an active captain/instructor (TRI/TRE/TKI) on the Boeing 737NG.
For pilots, dispatchers and trainees
Contents explain EASA/FAA Regulations with the B737 as a baseline but due to commonality, the information may also serve as reference for other Boeing types and other large civil twin-jets. This app keeps you familiar with the full meaning of the calculations you have, or your computer has, made.
It contains all a dispatcher needs to know to dispatch a flight which meets all regulatory performance requirements.
For you as a student pilot this app serves as a helpful guide in understanding the (ATPL) performance theory and how it is applied in the daily operation of your future job.
The full handbook in your flight bag
The same content on every device: reference sections, worked examples and the various calculation tools, available offline at the gate and in the cruise.
Besides your iPad and iPhone the app also runs on your iMac or MacBook.
Useful operational tools
Besides reference and explanatory information, the app contains a Tools section with calculators which make the pilot life easier.
Landing Distance & Brake Cooling
Required landing distance and recommended brake cooling time for various B737 types, with QNH, slope, wind, OAT, reverse thrust, flaps, runway condition and brake type as inputs.
EASA, FAA, ICAO
This app contains all a pilot or dispatcher needs to know about aircraft performance for large civil twin-jet aircraft in general and for the Boeing 737NG in special. Performance regulations of the world's 2 main rulemaking agencies, EASA and FAA, are incorporated, as well as ICAO definitions and remarks. On opening the app you choose your edition, EASA or FAA, or change between the two any time in settings.
In this app general performance regulations for large civil twin-jets (performance Class A) are explained, as well as performance data and application methods for the Boeing 737NG in special. Moreover, the app also contains handy calculation tools.
See the tools in action
A short walkthrough of the tools, workflows and reference sections, so you can see how quickly the figures you need are on screen.
Learn from real world incidents
Recent aviation occurrences mainly with the Boeing 737 where insufficient performance might have had a play. Reports are sourced from The Aviation Herald.
Jet2 · B738
Temporary runway excursion
Source: avherald →United · B738
Engine shut down in flight
Source: avherald →American · B738
No flaps landing
Source: avherald →Amerijet · B763
Hard landing
Source: avherald →Transair · B735
Runway excursion
Source: avherald →Sepehran · B733
Rejected takeoff due to severe vibrations
Source: avherald →Written by an airline pilot with an aeronautical engineering degree who is an active Captain/TRI/TRE/TKI/Testpilot on the Boeing 737NG.
Maurits Hulshof (B.Eng) is an experienced captain on the Boeing 737 and has served as a technical pilot for many years and still is as a developer and instructor responsible for all the performance courses of his company for both its Boeing and Airbus fleet.
“The 737PRH makes 737 performance transparent and understandable to pilots like me, for whom performance has always been some kind of black hole. I finally got to understand some performance issues that have been obscure to me for many years. The book comes in handy format and excellent layout. Well done, Maurits, I recommend your guide to all 737 pilots.”