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Arrival
Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 457 m instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 140 m past the target, landing at 597 m against the 457 m aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 142 kt, on the 143 kt target, and lifted off at 155 kt 4.2 s later, the nose coming up at 1.8° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 164 kt target, at 163 kt on average.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 923 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,316 m of runway left; gear up at 16 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,620 fpm on average to 923 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,755 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 4.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.1 m right. Airborne 41 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.1 nm, about 730 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 220 ft above the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 477 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.7 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.1 nm (up to +57 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 5° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 049° at 7 kt · 6 kt head · 1 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 118 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 32 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,633 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 39 ft, 11 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 18 ft. Touched down 597 m in, 292 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,633 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 400 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,633 m of the 2,501 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.8 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.3 m left by the end of the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 597 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The pilot taxied the Airbus A320ceo from the parking area to runway 03 at EHEH Eindhoven Airport, a movement that lasted 14 minutes and covered 4 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 03. The aircraft used 1,146 m of runway, which is 42 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 142 kt. Local weather at departure was 10 °C with wind 8 kt from 062°, giving a 4 kt crosswind component and a 7 kt headwind component.
During the initial climb to 1,000 ft agl the aircraft took 19 seconds, averaged 2,404 fpm and reached 165 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,052 ft asl to 7,005 ft asl in 3 minutes while covering 10 nm, beginning overhead Eindhoven.
Cruise was level at 7,000 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 23 nm, with the aircraft positioned about 1 mile south-west of Aarle-Rixtel.
Descent from 7,012 ft asl to 1,905 ft asl took 6 minutes and covered 26 nm, starting overhead Linne.
At 1,434 ft agl the pilot executed a go-around on runway 03 at EHBK Maastricht Aachen Airport.
The subsequent final approach to runway 03 at EHBK began at 1,498 ft agl and descended to 62 ft agl in 97 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration changes were recorded at 1,556 ft agl with the landing gear down at 190 kt, and final flap position 5 at 1,176 ft agl with 172 kt.
Landing was made on runway 03, whose length is 2,501 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 131 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 173 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 126 kt, noted as a little fast, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 204 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 7.8 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 10 °C with wind 5 kt from 050°, giving a 2 kt crosswind and a 5 kt headwind. No bounce occurred.
The total landing distance was 1,547 m, representing 62 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the pilot taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 70 nm in 38 minutes and consumed 1,139 kg of fuel.
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