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Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,579 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,579 m of the 3,299 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 285 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The Airbus A321 then departed from runway 27L at London Heathrow Airport, with a takeoff distance of 857 meters, which was 26% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 145 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it encountered local weather conditions of 22°C temperature and a wind speed of 18 knots at 199 degrees. The crosswind was 17 knots, while the headwind was 6 knots. After departing from London Heathrow, the aircraft began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile south of Harmondsworth in Greater London, England. The climb took the aircraft from 1,137 feet above sea level to 5,788 feet, an increase of 4,651 feet in just 2 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started overhead Eton Wick in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, England, and lasted for 5 minutes, covering 24 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another enroute climb, this time from 5,995 feet to 38,797 feet, an increase of 32,802 feet in 19 minutes, covering a distance of 153 nautical miles. The climb took place overhead Newgate Street in Hertfordshire, England.
After the second climb, the aircraft entered another enroute level cruise, starting 30 miles west of Bergen aan Zee in the Provincie Noord-Holland, The Netherlands. This cruise lasted for 27 minutes, covering 231 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 1 mile north of Jardelund in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The descent took the aircraft from 38,517 feet to 2,029 feet, a decrease of 36,489 feet in 23 minutes, covering a distance of 134 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another enroute level cruise, starting 4 miles west of Barsebaeckshamn in Skane County, Sweden. This cruise lasted for 2 minutes, covering 6 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 22L at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, flying from the north-east and heading 221.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,268 feet above ground level.
However, the aircraft was required to perform a go-around at 47 feet above ground level. The aircraft then landed on runway 22L, with a runway length of 3,299 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 122 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 285 meters, but the touchdown speed was a little fast at 116 knots. The touchdown rate was very hard at -537 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 9.7 meters from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.3 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 19°C temperature and a wind speed of 14 knots at 140 degrees, with a crosswind of 13 knots and a headwind of 2 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,493 meters, which was 45% of the runway length. After landing, the aircraft taxiied to the parking area, a process that took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 570 nautical miles, taking 104 minutes, and the aircraft used 4,296 kilograms of fuel.
The Airbus A321 aircraft successfully landed on runway 22L at EKCH Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, achieving an overall score of 86.4%. The final approach to the runway was initiated from the north-east, heading 221.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,268 feet above ground level (agl).
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway, with a touchdown distance of 285 meters, which was considered good. However, the touchdown speed of 116 knots was slightly above the target speed, indicating that the pilot may have been able to flare the aircraft more effectively to achieve a smoother touchdown. The touchdown rate was also very hard, at -537 feet per minute (fpm), which may have resulted in a bumpy ride for passengers.
The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 9.7 meters from the centerline, which may have been due to a slight deviation in the pilot's alignment during the final approach. Additionally, the runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned, by 9.3 meters from the centerline, which may have been a result of the initial misalignment during touchdown.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 19°C and a wind speed of 14 knots from a direction of 140°. The crosswind component was 13 knots, while the headwind component was 2 knots. These conditions may have presented some challenges for the pilot during the landing, but they do not appear to have had a significant impact on the overall performance of the aircraft.
Overall, while the landing was not perfect, the Airbus A321 aircraft performed well, and the pilot demonstrated good control and management of the aircraft during the final approach and touchdown. However, there is room for improvement in terms of achieving a smoother touchdown and better alignment with the runway centerline.
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