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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,525 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,525 m of the 2,135 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 422 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, an Airbus A320, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, taking approximately 8 minutes to cover a distance of 3 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 21R, with the aircraft lifting off at a speed of 149 knots after covering 47% of the runway's length.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 4°C temperature and a wind speed of 14 knots from a direction of 219°. The crosswind component was 3 knots, while the headwind component was 13 knots. The aircraft began its enroute climb, starting from an altitude of 1,651 feet above sea level and gradually increasing to 28,595 feet, a total ascent of 26,943 feet over a distance of 90 nautical miles in 16 minutes.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, lasting for 30 minutes and covering a distance of 258 nautical miles. This phase began approximately 3 miles north of Lake County Executive Airport in Ohio. The aircraft then started its enroute descent, beginning from an altitude of 28,119 feet and decreasing to 1,378 feet over a distance of 85 nautical miles in 15 minutes. The descent phase started 1 mile west of Jake Arner Memorial Airport in Pennsylvania.
As the aircraft approached its destination, LaGuardia Airport, it began its final approach to runway 04 from the southwest, heading at an angle of 32.0°. The aircraft was at an altitude of 1,335 feet above ground level and 4 nautical miles from the runway. The local weather conditions at LaGuardia Airport were characterized by a temperature of 1°C and a wind speed of 12 knots from a direction of 200°, with a crosswind component of 3 knots and a tailwind component of 12 knots.
The aircraft landed on runway 04, which had a length of 2,135 meters. The threshold height was above the target, and the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 131 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 424 meters, but the touchdown speed was a little fast at 129 knots. The touchdown rate was very hard at -566 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking approximately 4 minutes to cover a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 442 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 76 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 2,785 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A320 successfully landed on runway 04 at KLGA LaGuardia Airport, achieving a score of 91.0%. The aircraft approached the runway from the southwest, heading 32.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,335 feet above ground level (agl).
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down at a speed of 129 knots, which was slightly above the target speed. The touchdown distance of 424 meters was considered good, indicating a smooth and controlled descent. However, the touchdown rate of -566 feet per minute (fpm) was very hard, suggesting that the aircraft may have been descending too quickly.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 1°C and a wind speed of 12 knots from a direction of 200°. This resulted in a crosswind of 3 knots and a tailwind of 12 knots, which may have contributed to the hard touchdown rate.
Despite the hard touchdown, the runway touchdown alignment was perfect, indicating that the aircraft was well-aligned with the runway centerline. The runway rollout alignment was also very good, suggesting that the aircraft was able to maintain a stable and controlled roll-out after touchdown.
Overall, the landing was considered successful, with the aircraft achieving a good touchdown distance and a perfect runway touchdown alignment. However, the hard touchdown rate and slightly fast touchdown speed may indicate areas for improvement in the aircraft's approach and landing technique.
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