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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.
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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.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,297 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 283 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 A319, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at GLRB Roberts International Airport. This process took 6 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 22, and the takeoff distance was 1,620 meters, which accounted for 54% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 160 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of the airport, it began its enroute climb 1 mile south west of GLRB Roberts International Airport, Monrovia. The climb started from an altitude of 1,062 feet above sea level and reached a height of 34,200 feet above sea level, an increase of 33,139 feet in 17 minutes, covering a distance of 98 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 6 miles south east of Pujehun, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone, and lasted for 13 minutes, covering a distance of 90 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent 7 miles west of Rotifunk, also in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. The descent took place from an altitude of 34,173 feet above sea level to 1,425 feet above sea level, a decrease of 32,748 feet in 18 minutes, covering a distance of 93 nautical miles.
Upon approaching GUCY Conakry International Airport, the aircraft performed a go-around on runway 24 at an altitude of 1,356 feet above ground level. The final approach to runway 24 was made from the north east, heading 230.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,269 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 24 took place with a runway length of 3,297 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was also satisfactory at 130 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 285 meters, but the touchdown speed of 128 knots was a little fast. The touchdown rate was firm at -328 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.5 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 31 degrees Celsius, a wind speed of 7 knots at 300 degrees, a crosswind of 6 knots, and a headwind of 2 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,371 meters, which accounted for 42% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The taxiing to the parking area from the runway took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 288 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 79 minutes. The aircraft used 2,814 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A319 successfully landed at Conakry International Airport, achieving a score of 96.9%. The aircraft approached the runway from the north-east, heading 230.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,269 feet above ground level (agl). The final approach was made to runway 24, which has a length of 3,297 meters.
The landing was executed with good threshold height, and the threshold speed was also satisfactory at 130 knots. The touchdown distance was within acceptable limits at 285 meters. However, the touchdown speed of 128 knots was slightly higher than desired, indicating that the pilots may have been able to reduce the speed further during the approach. The touchdown rate was firm at -328 feet per minute (fpm), which is typical for a firm touchdown.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 6.5 meters, which may have been due to a slight deviation in the approach path. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 31°C and a wind speed of 7 knots from 300°. The crosswind component was 6 knots, while the headwind component was 2 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,371 meters, which corresponds to 42% of the runway length. This is a relatively short landing distance, indicating that the pilots were able to control the aircraft's descent and touchdown effectively. The runway rollout alignment was very good, suggesting that the pilots maintained control of the aircraft during the rollout phase.
Overall, the landing was successful, and the pilots demonstrated good control and management of the aircraft during the approach and touchdown phases. However, there is room for improvement in terms of reducing the touchdown speed and maintaining a more precise alignment with the runway centerline.
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