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Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 170 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 153 kt against a target of 170 kt, running 17 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 170 kt.
Arrival
In the last part of the flare, hold a little more back pressure to fully arrest the sink before the mains touch down.
What happened: Threshold speed and height were within limits, and the flare began on time and arrested the sink normally; even so, the touchdown rate was 183 fpm, a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smooth, gentle rate at touchdown
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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 3,092 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 484 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320 taxied from the parking area to runway 27R at London Heathrow Airport, a movement that lasted 7 minutes and covered 1 nm.
The departure roll commenced on runway 27R, with the aircraft accelerating to a liftoff speed of 148 kt. Takeoff distance recorded was 1,596 m, representing 41 % of the runway length. Ambient temperature was 17 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, giving a headwind component of 1 kt and no crosswind.
Climb began overhead Harmondsworth, ascending from 914 ft asl to 34,696 ft asl, an increase of 33,782 ft achieved in 19 minutes while covering 130 nm.
Level cruise was established 27 miles east of Southwold, lasting 22 minutes and encompassing 176 nm.
Descent commenced over Blijham, descending from 35,003 ft asl to 1,451 ft asl, a loss of 33,552 ft in 23 minutes and traversing 135 nm.
Final approach to runway 23 at Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport was flown from the north-east, on a heading of 230.0°, at 4 nm and 1,394 ft agl.
The aircraft touched down on runway 23, whose length is 3,092 m, with a threshold speed of 141 kt. Touchdown occurred 63 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 130 kt and a vertical rate of minus 194 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 3.2 m from the centreline. Local temperature was 17 °C, wind 13 kt from 220° with a 2 kt crosswind component and a 13 kt headwind.
Runway rollout covered a distance of 1,414 m, equal to 46 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was very good.
After landing, the Airbus A320 taxied from the runway to the parking area, a taxi-in that lasted 5 minutes and covered 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 450 nm, required 77 minutes from departure to arrival, and consumed 3,434 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320 completed the final approach to runway 23 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport from the north-east on a heading of 230.0° at 4 nm and 1,394 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits, and the local weather was 17 °C with a wind of 13 kt from 220°, including a 2 kt crosswind component and a 13 kt headwind.
At threshold the height was good and the threshold speed was good at 141 kt, indicating an appropriate flare set-up for the landing.
Touchdown occurred 63 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 130 kt that was judged good, and the vertical speed was good at minus 194 fpm. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.2 m from the centreline.
The aircraft rolled out using a total landing distance of 1,414 m, representing 46 % of the 3,092 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
With a score of 99.5 % the landing was excellent; refining centreline tracking to eliminate the 3.2 m offset and adjusting flare timing to keep the touchdown point within the designated zone will further optimise performance.
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