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Departure
Level the wings with coordinated aileron to hold bank angle near zero during the initial climb, starting from 5.1°.
What happened: Bank angle was elevated during the initial climb and excess bank usually persists into the second climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, wings level with bank angle near zero degrees.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,691 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,691 m of the 3,002 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 516 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 13 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The aircraft, an Airbus A350-900, then departed from runway 12 at Bilbao Airport (LEBB). The takeoff distance was 1,381 meters, which accounted for 65% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 155 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 35 knots from a direction of 189 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 33 knots and a headwind of 10 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead Zamudio in the Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa region of Spain. The climb took 20 minutes and covered a distance of 102 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 1,191 feet above sea level to 32,077 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 13 nautical miles. This phase began 2 miles south east of Cevico Navero in the Castilla y Leon region of Spain. The aircraft then started its enroute descent, which began 2 miles west of Penafiel in the same region. The descent took 22 minutes and covered a distance of 77 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 32,152 feet to 3,202 feet.
The final approach to runway 32R at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (LEMD) was made from the south east, with the aircraft heading 322.0 degrees at an altitude of 1,243 feet above ground level and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway. The landing was made on runway 32R, which had a length of 3,002 meters. The threshold height at 66 feet above ground level was above the target, but the threshold speed was good at 134 knots.
The touchdown point was 58 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was a little fast at 134 knots. The touchdown rate was firm at -310 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.9 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 7 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 15 knots from a direction of 180 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 9 knots and a tailwind of 12 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,569 meters, which accounted for 52% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.9 meters from the centreline. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 4 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 202 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 58 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 5,876 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A350-900 aircraft successfully landed on runway 32R at LEMD Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, but with some minor deviations from the ideal landing parameters. The final approach was initiated from the southeast, heading 322.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,243 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft touched down on the runway, which has a length of 3,002 meters.
The threshold height at 66 feet agl was above the target, indicating that the aircraft was slightly higher than desired when reaching the runway threshold. However, the threshold speed was satisfactory at 134 knots, which is a good indication of the pilot's control over the aircraft's descent and speed. The touchdown point was 58 meters beyond the touchdown zone, which is a relatively minor deviation. The touchdown speed of 134 knots was slightly faster than ideal, resulting in a firm touchdown rate of -310 feet per minute (fpm).
The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.9 meters from the centerline, which may have been due to a slight deviation in the aircraft's alignment during the final approach. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 7°C and winds of 15 knots at 180°. The crosswind component was 9 knots, while the tailwind component was 12 knots. These wind conditions may have contributed to the slight deviations in the landing parameters.
The total landing distance was 1,569 meters, which is 52% of the runway length. This is a relatively short landing distance, indicating that the pilot was able to control the aircraft's descent and speed effectively. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.9 meters from the centerline, which may have been due to a slight deviation in the aircraft's alignment during the rollout phase. Overall, the landing was successful, but with some minor deviations from the ideal parameters.
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