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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 17 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and wing drift like that usually keeps reappearing as bank in the climb, with 6.5° of bank in the first climb segment and 7.4° still showing in the second.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the runway centreline during the roll, then wings level through the climb.
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,817 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 278 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from London City Airport, the Airbus A320 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took approximately 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then commenced its departure roll on runway 27, utilizing 85% of the available runway length to achieve a takeoff distance of 1,139 meters. Liftoff speed was reached at 161 knots, as the aircraft lifted off into the local weather conditions, which featured a temperature of 15°C and a gentle headwind of 4 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, starting approximately 1 mile east of Canary Wharf. The initial climb phase saw the aircraft ascend from 978 feet above sea level to 3,009 feet, an increase of 2,031 feet in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise phase followed, lasting 2 minutes and covering 5 nautical miles, before the aircraft began its second climb phase, this time from 3,014 feet to 37,673 feet, an increase of 34,659 feet in 27 minutes, covering a distance of 185 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, lasting 20 minutes and covering 152 nautical miles, before commencing its descent phase, which saw the aircraft descend from 38,012 feet to 1,391 feet in 15 minutes, covering a distance of 81 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 05 at Inverness Airport was initiated from the south-west, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 49.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,343 feet above ground level. The landing was executed on runway 05, which had a length of 1,814 meters. The touchdown speed was slightly above the target at 136 knots, but the touchdown distance was good at 276 meters. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, a process that took approximately 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 436 nautical miles, taking 76 minutes, and the aircraft used 3,381 kilograms of fuel during the journey.
The final approach to runway 05 at EGPE Inverness Airport from the south west was executed with a heading of 49.0° at 4 nm and 1,343 ft above ground level. The approach quality was satisfactory, with a good threshold height achieved. However, the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 136 kt, indicating a slight deviation from the optimal landing speed.
As the aircraft touched down on the runway, the touchdown distance was good at 276 m, but the touchdown speed of 138 kt was a little fast. This resulted in a very hard touchdown rate of -528 fpm, which may have caused some discomfort for the passengers. Despite this, the runway touchdown alignment was perfect, with the aircraft centered on the runway. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 5 °C and a wind of 17 kt at 360°, contributed to a crosswind of 13 kt and a headwind of 11 kt.
The total landing distance of 1,268 m was 70% of the runway length, indicating a relatively short landing distance. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 12.7 m from the centreline, which may have required some corrective action from the pilots. Overall, the landing was scored 91.9%, reflecting a good performance with some minor deviations from the optimal landing parameters.
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