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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 881 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Add power on final to cross the threshold at 139 kt, correcting the speed before the flare begins.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 18 kt below the 139 kt target, and the flare that followed raised the nose only 2.2° with little of the sink taken out. Shallow, underpowered approaches like this usually carry through into a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 139 kt at the threshold
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 3,946 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 168 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.69 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Dubai International Airport, the Airbus A380 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 18 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. As the aircraft lined up on runway 30R, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 32 °C, with a wind speed of 9 kt at 189°, resulting in a crosswind of 8 kt and a tailwind of 3 kt.
Following a successful departure roll, the aircraft initiated its enroute climb, which began 4 miles northwest of Dubai International Airport and continued until it reached a cruising altitude of 25,000 ft. This climb phase covered a distance of 77 nautical miles and took 13 minutes to complete, with the aircraft increasing its altitude by 24,050 ft. The enroute level cruise phase followed, lasting 9 minutes and covering 66 nautical miles, before the aircraft began its descent towards Muscat International Airport. The descent phase, which started 18 miles west of As Suwayq, Oman, took 11 minutes to complete and covered a distance of 66 nautical miles, with the aircraft decreasing its altitude by 18,926 ft.
Upon reaching the final approach phase, the aircraft initiated a level cruise at 2 miles west of Muscat International Airport, lasting 2 minutes and covering 7 nautical miles. The final descent phase began 3 miles northwest of the airport, with the aircraft decreasing its altitude by 1,804 ft in 2 minutes. The aircraft then initiated a level cruise at 8 miles northeast of the airport, lasting 2 minutes and covering 6 nautical miles, before beginning its final descent. The aircraft landed on runway 26R at Muscat International Airport, with a touchdown distance of 166 meters and a touchdown speed of 118 kt. The total landing distance was 980 meters, accounting for 24% of the runway length. Following a successful landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 254 nautical miles, with the aircraft using 11,568 kg of fuel during the 58-minute flight.
The aircraft touched down on runway 26R at OOMS Muscat International Airport with a good threshold height, indicating a well-executed approach. However, the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 121 kt, which may have been a result of the aircraft's descent rate being slightly steeper than intended. The touchdown distance of 166 m was within acceptable limits, and the touchdown speed of 118 kt was also good.
Upon touchdown, the aircraft exhibited a very heavy rate of descent, at -740 fpm, which may have been a result of the pilots' decision to flare slightly late or not enough. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.1 m from the centreline, which could have been due to a slight deviation in the pilots' alignment with the runway centreline during the final stages of the approach. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 39 °C and a headwind of 6 kt, may have also played a role in the slight misalignment.
The total landing distance of 980 m was 24% of the runway length, which is within acceptable limits. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.6 m from the centreline, which may have been a result of the pilots' continued deviation from the centreline during the rollout phase. Despite these minor deviations, the overall landing performance was good, with a score of 92.0%.
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