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Shorten the long landing
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Hold the aim point and wait for the runway to come to you instead of starting the flare at 98 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 98 ft, well above the normal band and 53 ft earlier than the 45 ft limit.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the normal flare band around 50 ft.
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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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 3,898 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 610 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 12 at EFOU Oulu Airport in 5 minutes, covering 2 nm.
The departure roll on runway 12 was completed with a takeoff distance of 1,178 m, representing 47 % of the runway, and liftoff occurred at 154 kt. Local weather at the time was temperature 23 °C, wind 3 kt from 159 °, with a 2 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt headwind component.
Climb commenced overhead EFOU Oulu
The Boeing 737-800 established final approach to runway 16R at LIRF from the north, heading 163.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,304 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. Local weather was 33 °C with wind 6 kt from 260 °, a 6 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
At threshold the aircraft’s speed was slightly above target at 134 kt and the threshold height was good. The flare resulted in touchdown 194 m beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 120 kt that was good and a touchdown rate of minus 156 fpm that was good.
Touchdown occurred with the wheel track slightly misaligned by 3.8 m from the centreline. Total landing distance was 1,107 m, representing 28 % of the 3,898 m runway length.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
With a score of 98.9 % the landing was strong overall; focus on reducing the touchdown point distance to keep the touchdown within the designated zone and on tightening lateral alignment to stay closer to the centreline.
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