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Stop the rotation once the sink is arrested at 7 ft, holding the normal landing attitude instead of continuing to pull back.
What happened: The flare pitch reached 2.6°, well above this type's ground attitude, and touchdown followed at a sink rate of 367 fpm. Over-rotating the flare like this usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold the normal landing attitude once sink is arrested at 7 ft.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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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 3,439 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 507 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 367 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 05L at EGCC Manchester Airport in 7 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 05L with a take-off distance of 1,523 m (58 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 131 kt. The local weather was 11 °C, wind 12 kt from 090° (crosswind 7 kt, headwind 9 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 19 seconds, averaging 2,327 fpm and reaching 160 kt at the top of the segment.
Climb continued from 1,305 ft asl to 32,349 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 45 nm, beginning 1 mile north-east of EGCC Manchester Airport.
Level flight was held at 33,000 ft asl for 17 minutes, covering 114 nm, beginning 2 miles south-west of Bircotes.
Descent from 32,748 ft asl to 1,284 ft asl took 26 minutes and covered 126 nm, beginning 14 miles east of Sea Palling.
Final approach to runway 24 at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol descended from 1,334 ft agl to 72 ft agl in 121 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration on final was flap 3 at 2,215 ft agl, speed 190 kt.
Landing on runway 24 (runway length 3,439 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 121 kt. The flare was described as very good, though the nose was raised too far. Touchdown occurred 77 m beyond the touchdown zone at 114 kt, a little fast, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 367 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 10.2 m from the centreline. No bounce was observed.
Total landing distance was 1,402 m (41 % of runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 12.1 m from the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 292 nm in 66 minutes and used 2,007 kg of fuel.
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