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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 145 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 122 kt, 23 kt before the 145 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 145 kt at rotation
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 297 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 492 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline 9.4° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,071 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 546 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 492 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo departed Cork Airport (EICK) on runway 34. The take-off roll was 669 m, which is 31 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 122 kt. Local weather was 8 °C with wind 35 kt from 329°, giving a 35 kt headwind and 6 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 23 seconds, averaging 1,992 fpm and reaching 211 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,434 ft asl to 21,018 ft asl in 9 minutes, covering 54 nm while remaining overhead Cork. Level flight was held at 21,000 ft asl for 2 minutes, covering 11 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-east of Mullinahone.
Descent began from 21,010 ft asl to 1,485 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 73 nm, starting overhead Bennettsbridge with a brief level-off at 19,000 ft asl. A go-around was executed on runway 34 at Dublin Airport (EIDW) at 198 ft agl.
On the subsequent final approach to runway 34 at EIDW, descent from 1,321 ft agl to 167 ft agl took 116 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed and wings level; the centreline check was not met at one gate. Configuration on final was flap 4 at 652 ft agl with a speed of 148 kt.
Landing on runway 34 was on a runway 2,071 m long with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 141 kt. The flare was described as great, though the pitch was pumped up and down during the flare. Touchdown occurred 127 m beyond the touchdown zone at 136 kt, a little fast, with a hard rate of -493 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.2 m from the centreline, but there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,160 m, 56 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 7 °C with wind 26 kt from 320°, giving a 25 kt headwind and 8 kt crosswind. After landing, taxiing to the parking area took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 175 nm in 43 minutes and used 1,901 kg of fuel.
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