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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 9.7 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
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. 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 2,812 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 238 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, the Airbus A321 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took approximately 4 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. As the aircraft lined up on runway 21L, it was met with a temperature of 28 °C and a gentle headwind of 3 kt, with a crosswind component of 9 kt. The takeoff roll commenced, and the aircraft lifted off the ground at a speed of 160 kt, covering a distance of 1,474 meters, which represented 43% of the runway length.
As the aircraft climbed away from Athens, it began its enroute climb, which started at an altitude of 1,234 feet above sea level and continued to 37,163 feet, an increase of 35,928 feet in just 15 minutes. The climb phase covered a distance of 258 nautical miles. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 7 minutes and covered 120 nautical miles. The cruise phase was punctuated by a series of enroute descents and level cruises, with the final descent commencing 60 miles southeast of Cirali, Turkey. The aircraft descended from 36,446 feet to 2,221 feet in 18 minutes, covering a distance of 137 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 22 at Larnaca International Airport was initiated from the northeast, with the aircraft touching down on the runway at a speed of 143 kt and a distance of 239 meters.
The landing was completed with a total landing distance of 830 meters, which represented 30% of the runway length. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was also slightly off-centre. The aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 4 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 538 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 56 minutes, with a fuel consumption of 4,055 kilograms.
The aircraft touched down on runway 22 at Larnaca International Airport with a threshold height that met expectations. However, the threshold speed was slightly above the target, registering 142 knots. The touchdown distance was satisfactory, measuring 239 meters, but the touchdown speed of 143 knots was faster than desired. The touchdown rate was also heavy, at -693 feet per minute, indicating a steeper descent than intended.
Upon touchdown, the aircraft's runway touchdown position was found to be 11.3 meters off-centerline, deviating from the ideal alignment. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 17 knots from 190 degrees, contributed to a 10-knot crosswind and a 14-knot headwind. The aircraft's total landing distance of 830 meters, accounting for 30% of the runway length, was within acceptable limits.
During the rollout phase, the aircraft's alignment was found to be slightly off-centerline, deviating by 10.3 meters from the ideal position. Despite these deviations, the overall performance of the landing was satisfactory, earning a score of 89.7%. The crew's ability to navigate the aircraft safely and efficiently, despite the challenging weather conditions, was commendable.
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