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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 37 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 119 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 438 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: sink rate above what the glideslope needed, off the runway's 3° glideslope and off the centreline.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 6,252 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2,133 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
A flight was operated on an Airbus A321, departing from runway 07 at EDDS Stuttgart Airport in Germany. The aircraft taxied for 10 minutes and covered approximately 1 nautical mile before reaching the runway, which was 6,220 feet long and took up 62% of its length for takeoff.
Upon departure, the aircraft reached a liftoff speed of 172 knots, taking off into local weather conditions of 62°F and calm winds. The enroute climb began shortly after, reaching an altitude of 35,540 feet above sea level (asl) after passing 1 mile north of Neuhausen auf den Fildern, Germany. The climb spanned a distance of 176 nautical miles and increased the aircraft's altitude by 33,392 feet in just 27 minutes.
Subsequently, the aircraft began level cruising 3 miles west of San Martino di Castrozza in Italy at an altitude of 35,540 feet asl, covering 449 nautical miles for 56 minutes. It then started descending 12 miles northeast of Lecce-San Cataldo Lepore Airfield (LE) in Italy, losing 31,654 feet of altitude in a mere 16 minutes and covering 85 nautical miles. As a brief stopover, the aircraft level cruised for 6 minutes, covering just 3 nautical miles 1 mile southeast of Nisaki in Greece.
However, descent continued when the aircraft dropped to a mere 2 miles west of Nisaki. Here, the aircraft lost a further 1,389 feet of altitude in just 2 minutes and covered 4 nautical miles before landing at LGKR Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport. The aircraft completed a final approach to runway 16 from the north at an altitude of 1,793 feet above ground level (agl), traveling at 4 nautical miles and a speed of 161 degrees.
The landing itself occurred on a runway that was 6,252 feet long and had a good threshold height. The threshold speed was slightly above the target speed of 146 knots. Notably, the touchdown point was 766 feet beyond the touchdown zone, indicating a longer-than-ideal landing. However, the touchdown speed of 136 knots was deemed a tad fast. Moreover, the touchdown rate was firm, registering at -304 feet per minute.
Furthermore, the runway touchdown position was off-center by 45 feet, and during rollout, the aircraft slightly misaligned with the runway centerline, by 43 feet. The local weather conditions were 64°F with winds blowing at 2 knots from 360 degrees, which was partly a crosswind and partly a tailwind of nearly 1 knot.
The total distance covered by the aircraft upon landing was 4,501 feet, corresponding to 72% of the runway's length. The aircraft took only 2 minutes to taxi from the runway to the parking area, covering less than 1 nautical mile.
In summary, the Airbus A321 flew for 123 minutes, covering a total distance of 726 nautical miles at the end, and consumed approximately 14,301 pounds of fuel throughout its journey.
The Airbus A321 safely landed at LGKR Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport, with a reported score of 88.2%. The aircraft's final approach to runway 16 began from the north, at a heading of 161.0° and at an altitude of 1,793 feet above ground level. Upon completion of the landing, it achieved a good threshold height and touched down slightly above the target threshold speed of 146 kt at 146 kt.
The touchdown point was located 766 feet beyond the standard touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was a tad fast at 136 kt. The aircraft exhibited a firm touchdown rate of -304 feet per minute. However, one notable issue was observed, as the aircraft did not properly align with the centreline during both landing and rollout, misaligned by 45 ft and 43 ft, respectively.
Meteorological conditions during the landing were relatively calm, with a temperature of 64°F and almost negligible wind at 2 kt from a southerly direction. As a result, crosswind and tailwind components were minimal, standing at 0 kt and 1 kt, respectively.
Upon further inspection of the landing data, we see that the total landing distance of 4,501 ft was 72% of the aircraft's total runway length. These results indicate a generally safe and controlled landing. However, areas for improvement would involve fine-tuning flight control to optimize speeds, height, alignment, and overall landing performance in order to achieve scores closer to 100%. Further training may be necessary to achieve such scores.
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