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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 179 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 37 kt fast at 216 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 179 kt in the climb
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the attitude instead of letting the nose drop.
What happened: Sink came back after the flare had arrested it, and that pattern usually carries the touchdown long - here it landed at 1,065 m against the 457 m aim point.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, shallow rate through the flare with no renewed sink before touchdown
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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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 1.3° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 2,021 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,021 m of the 2,536 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,065 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 departed from runway 07 at LFPO Paris-Orly Airport. The take-off roll was 1,270 m, which is 38 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 145 kt. Local weather at departure was 14 °C with wind 5 kt from 120°, giving a 4 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 25 seconds, averaging 1,619 fpm and reaching 222 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,222 ft asl to 34,989 ft asl in 22 minutes, covering 157 nm and beginning overhead Ablon-sur-Seine. Cruise was level at 35,000 ft asl for 33 minutes, covering 260 nm, starting overhead Contigny. Descent from 35,001 ft asl to 1,003 ft asl took 20 minutes, covering 113 nm, beginning 19 miles south-east of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
On final approach to runway 16 at LFKB Bastia-Poretta Airport, descent from 1,130 ft agl to 62 ft agl was completed in 96 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 was landing gear down at 3,546 ft agl and 219 kt, and final flap position 8 at 2,750 ft agl and 163 kt.
Landing was on runway 16, whose length is 2,536 m. The threshold speed was 146 kt. The flare was described as great, though the aircraft ballooned in the flare. Touchdown occurred 657 m beyond the touchdown zone at 144 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 154 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,947 m, 77 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, taxiing to the parking area took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 539 nm in 86 minutes and used 4,089 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 18 °C with wind 2 kt from 230°, giving a 2 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind.
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