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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 4.6 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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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 2,690 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 249 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from London Heathrow Airport, the Airbus A321 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 11 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. As it reached the runway, the aircraft started its departure roll on runway 09R, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 154 knots. The takeoff distance of 1,552 meters was 46% of the runway length, a testament to the aircraft's efficient performance.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it encountered a local weather pattern with a temperature of 17°C and winds of 15 knots from 200°. The crosswind component was 15 knots, while the tailwind component was 5 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile northwest of Feltham, where the aircraft ascended from 1,089 feet above sea level to 5,969 feet in just 2 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles. The climb continued in stages, with the aircraft reaching a cruising altitude of 32,979 feet above sea level after a 16-minute climb from 6,007 feet. The total distance covered during this phase was 113 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached its destination, Düsseldorf Airport, it began its descent from 32,998 feet above sea level to 1,461 feet, a decrease of 31,537 feet in 25 minutes. The final approach was made to runway 23L, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 134 knots and a distance of 255 meters. The touchdown rate was slightly higher than desired, at -543 feet per minute, but the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The total landing distance was 1,450 meters, or 61% of the runway length. After a short taxiing period, the aircraft came to a stop, having completed a total flight distance of 328 nautical miles and using 3,167 kilograms of fuel in the process.
The final approach to runway 23L at EDDL Düsseldorf Airport from the north east was executed with precision, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 233.0° at 4 nm and 1,321 ft above ground level. The approach quality was excellent, with a good threshold height achieved. However, the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 137 kt, indicating a slight deviation from the optimal landing speed.
As the aircraft touched down on the runway, the touchdown distance was good at 255 m, but the touchdown speed of 134 kt was a little fast. This resulted in a very hard touchdown rate of -543 fpm, which may have caused some stress on the aircraft's landing gear. Despite this, the runway touchdown alignment was very good, indicating that the pilot maintained excellent control during the approach and landing phases. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 20 °C and a wind of 6 kt at 120°, contributed to a relatively calm and stable environment for the landing.
The total landing distance of 1,450 m, which accounted for 61% of the runway length, was within acceptable limits. The runway rollout alignment was also very good, demonstrating the pilot's ability to maintain control and stability during the rollout phase. Overall, the landing was scored 96.5%, reflecting a high level of proficiency and adherence to standard operating procedures.
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