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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 0 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
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 221 fpm, a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smooth, gentle rate at touchdown
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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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 3,377 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 447 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 12L at KMSP for ten minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 12L, the aircraft used 1,537 m of runway, representing 62 % of the available length, and lifted off at 150 kt; ambient temperature was 28 °C with a wind of 8 kt from 090°, a 4 kt cross-wind component and a 7 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced one mile west of Mendota Heights, with the airplane ascending from 1,720 ft asl to 36,833 ft asl, a gain of 35,113 ft achieved in 22 minutes while traversing 138 nm.
The first cruise segment began three miles west of Worthington and continued for 183 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 1,095 nm at level flight.
Descent started two miles south of 5CA4 Ludlow Airport Barstow, descending from 37,448 ft asl to 10,832 ft asl, a loss of 26,616 ft in 16 minutes over a distance of 88 nm.
A brief cruise over Chino followed, lasting 117 minutes and covering less than 1 nm while maintaining altitude.
The next descent phase began overhead Chino, dropping from 10,832 ft asl to 2,064 ft asl, a reduction of 8,769 ft in 7 minutes across 29 nm.
A short cruise segment started one mile south-west of Florence-Graham, lasting three minutes and spanning 2 nm.
Final approach to runway 25L at KLAX was executed from the east, on a heading of 263.0°, at 4 nm and 1,257 ft agl, with local conditions of 26 °C temperature, wind 17 kt from 250°, a 4 kt cross-wind and a 16 kt head-wind component.
Landing on runway 25L, whose length is 3,377 m, was performed with a threshold speed of 144 kt, touchdown occurring at 449 m down the runway and at 140 kt; the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 144 fpm and alignment was very good. Total landing distance recorded was 1,080 m, equivalent to 32 % of the runway.
Runway rollout proceeded with very good alignment, completing the landing roll within the measured 1,080 m distance.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in eight minutes, covering an additional 2 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 1,361 nm, required 215 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 8,200 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A321 completed the final approach to runway 25L at KLAX from the east, tracking a heading of 263.0° at 4 nm and 1,142 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 22 °C with a 10 kt wind from 260°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 10 kt head-wind.
Threshold height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 134 kt.
Touchdown occurred 424 m down the runway, a distance described as good, with a touchdown speed of 132 kt also judged good. The touchdown rate was smooth at -140 fpm, while the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 7.0 m from the centreline.
Runway rollout alignment was very good and the total landing distance was 1,358 m, representing 40 % of the 3,377 m runway length.
Maintain precise lateral alignment on final approach to keep touchdown within a few metres of the centreline, and verify crab de-rotation timing to consistently achieve the standard 300 m (1,000 ft) aim point.
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