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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
You crossed the threshold slow. Without the speed there is little energy left to round out with, so the flare comes up short and the touchdown tends to be firm - and that feels exactly like flaring too late. Resist the fix that feels natural, flaring earlier: it bleeds off more speed and makes the next landing firmer still. Fly the approach speed all the way to the threshold, and the flare has something to work with.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 152 kt with 4.4° of pitch.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 919 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,715 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,550 fpm on average to 919 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,216 m runway.
Rolled from 75 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.2 m left. Airborne 37 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 4 nm to 3.0 nm (up to 890 ft over), then back on it to 2.3 nm, then high to 0.4 nm (up to 300 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 701 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.1 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 67 ft, 17 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 542 m in, 237 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 670 fpm at 64 ft to 330 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.7° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,807 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.9 m left of the centreline and drifted to 11 m left on the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 kt across
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 542 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 121 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 27 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Airbus A32NX began with a 10-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport. The departure roll on runway 15 covered a distance of 5 nm before taking off. The takeoff distance was 1,132 m, which represented 35% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was 153 kn. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were a temperature of 16 °C with a 1 kn wind coming from 269 ° with no significant head or crosswinds.
Upon departure, the enroute climb started over Fuhlsbuettel in Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft climbed from 1,049 ft asl to 30,002 ft asl, covering a distance of 49 nm in 10 minutes. The enroute level cruise phase began 3 miles north of Hauslingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, lasting 13 minutes and covering 97 nm. The descent phase commenced 1 mile west of Olsberg in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The aircraft descended from 29,639 ft asl to 1,377 ft asl over a distance of 58 nm in 11 minutes.
The final approach to runway 14L at EDDK Cologne Bonn Airport was from the northwest with a heading of 137.0 ° at 3 nm and an altitude of 1,100 ft agl. The landing on runway 14L was achieved with satisfactory threshold speed of 129 kn and touchdown speed of 120 kn. The touchdown rate was firm at -333 ft/m, with the touchdown point being 117 m beyond the designated zone. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.9 m from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 15 °C with a 1 kn wind coming from 269 ° and a 1 kn tailwind.
The total landing distance was 1,339 m, representing 35% of the total runway length. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 11.4 m from the centerline. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the total flight distance covered was 214 nm over a duration of 46 minutes. The aircraft consumed 1,500 kg of fuel during the flight.
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