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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 9.2 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
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.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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 2,739 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 391 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW), the Airbus A320 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 6 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. As the aircraft lined up on runway 31C, it was met with a local weather condition of 9°C temperature and a wind of 27 knots at 340°, resulting in a crosswind of 12 knots and a headwind of 25 knots. The aircraft successfully took off, covering a distance of 804 meters, which was 49% of the runway length, at a liftoff speed of 145 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to its enroute altitude, it began its ascent from 1,616 feet above sea level to 34,005 feet, an increase of 32,389 feet in 12 minutes, covering a distance of 123 nautical miles. The climb phase was followed by an 11-minute level cruise, during which the aircraft covered 296 nautical miles, before beginning its descent to a lower altitude. The descent phase started 3 miles south of Sewanee, Tennessee, and the aircraft descended from 33,541 feet to 4,009 feet in 12 minutes, covering a distance of 132 nautical miles. The aircraft then leveled off at 4,011 feet above sea level for a brief period before beginning its final descent.
As the aircraft approached Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (KATL), it began its final approach to runway 26R from the east, heading 270.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,352 feet above ground level. The aircraft landed successfully on the runway, with a touchdown distance of 392 meters, which was 53% of the runway length. The touchdown speed was slightly fast at 134 knots, and the touchdown rate was very hard at -517 feet per minute. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, a process that took 4 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 575 nautical miles, and the aircraft used 3,534 kilograms of fuel during the journey.
The aircraft touched down on runway 26R at KATL Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport with a threshold height that met the desired standards. The approach quality was good, with a threshold speed of 136 kt, which was within the acceptable range. The touchdown distance of 392 m was also satisfactory, indicating a well-executed landing. However, the touchdown speed of 134 kt was slightly above the optimal range, resulting in a harder-than-desired touchdown rate of -517 fpm.
Upon touchdown, the aircraft's runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 4.4 m, which may have been due to the crosswind conditions. The local weather at the time of landing featured a temperature of 16 °C, with a wind speed of 21 kt at 330 °. The crosswind component was 18 kt, while the headwind component was 11 kt. Despite these conditions, the pilot maintained control of the aircraft throughout the approach and landing phases.
The total landing distance of 1,441 m was 53% of the runway length, which is within the acceptable range. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 12.8 m, indicating a need for improvement in this area. Overall, the landing was satisfactory, with a score of 92.5%. While there were some minor deviations from the optimal standards, the pilot demonstrated good control and decision-making skills throughout the approach and landing phases.
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