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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 15 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 288 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 288 fpm next time
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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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 1,675 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,675 m of the 3,641 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 346 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A380-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 34L at OTHH, covering 1 nm in 7 minutes.
Take-off was on runway 34L, using 2,320 m (54 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 150 kt. The local weather was 39 °C with a wind from 070° at 4 kt (crosswind 4 kt, headwind 0 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 27 seconds, averaging 1,748 fpm and reaching 163 kt at the top.
Climb continued from 908 ft asl to 36,000 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 142 nm, beginning about 1 mile north-west of OTHH.
Cruise level was held between 36,000 ft asl and 38,000 ft asl for 350 minutes, covering 2,674 nm, starting 9 miles north-west of EEDF.
Descent from 37,990 ft asl to 1,395 ft asl took 21 minutes over 119 nm, beginning 1 mile north of Drucat.
Final approach to runway 27L at EGLL began with a descent from 1,363 ft agl to 76 ft agl in 101 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Configuration was gear down at 2,716 ft agl at 177 kt; final flap position 5 was selected at 2,208 ft agl at 153 kt.
Landing on runway 27L (runway length 3,641 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 141 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred at 140 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown distance of 346 m and a rate of -289 fpm (fair). Alignment on touchdown was very good. One bounce occurred on touchdown.
Total landing distance was 1,593 m (44 % of the runway) and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at EGLL was 13 °C with wind from 315° at 3 kt (crosswind 2 kt, headwind 2 kt).
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 2,943 nm in 405 minutes and used 82,713 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A380-800 executed a stabilised approach to runway 27L at EGLL London Heathrow, with the stabilisation assessment recorded as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate. Gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and speed were all within limits, and the aircraft descended from 1,363 ft agl to 76 ft agl in 101 seconds.
At the threshold the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 141 kt. The flare transitioned to touchdown with a speed of 140 kt, noted as a little fast, and the touchdown rate was firm at minus 350 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was very good.
Touchdown occurred 347 m down the runway, with the touchdown speed of 140 kt and a firm rate of minus 350 fpm. The alignment at touchdown remained very good, and the local weather was 13 °C, wind 3 kt from 315°, with a 2 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,593 m, representing 44 % of the 3,641 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
With a score of 96.9 % the landing was strong overall; reducing the touchdown speed slightly and moderating the flare to lessen the firm rate would refine the performance further.
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