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Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 9 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 8.1 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
Departure
Hold the nose until reaching 155 kt, letting speed build fully before rotating.
What happened: Rotation began at 146 kt, 9 kt before the 155 kt target. Climb speed later settled slow of target in Climb 3.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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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 22.2° off, against a 1° limit.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline 14.1° 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 2,796 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 211 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321 taxied from the parking area to the departure runway in 11 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 13 at KLGA LaGuardia Airport, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 1,325 m, representing 62 % of the runway. Liftoff was achieved at 147 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 26 °C, wind from 160° at 25 kt, with a crosswind component of 15 kt and a headwind component of 19 kt.
The en-route climb commenced overhead East Elmhurst, New York, and the aircraft ascended from 921 ft asl to 35,999 ft asl, an increase of 35,078 ft in 16 minutes while covering 153 nm.
Level cruise began 4 miles north-east of Laurel, Delaware, and persisted for 25 minutes, during which 625 nm were flown.
Descent operations started 62 miles east of KXMR Cape Canaveral SFS Skid Strip, Cocoa Beach, Florida. The aircraft descended from 36,009 ft asl to 152 ft asl, a loss of 35,857 ft in 17 minutes, traversing 133 nm.
The final approach to runway 28R at KPBI Palm Beach International Airport was conducted from the east, on a heading of 273.0°, at 0 nm distance and 126 ft agl.
Landing on runway 28R at KPBI, whose length is 2,796 m, was executed with a threshold speed of 142 kt. Touchdown occurred 210 m down the runway at a speed of 137 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 140 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 8.4 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 29 °C, wind from 240° at 11 kt, crosswind 6 kt and headwind 9 kt. The total landing distance recorded was 1,113 m, equal to 40 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was noted as slightly off centreline by 8.1 m.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 917 nm, taking 71, and consumed 6,289 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A321 established the final approach to runway 28R at KPBI from the east, holding a heading of 273.0° at 0 NM and 126 ft AGL. Ambient conditions were 29 °C with a wind of 11 kt from 240°, giving a 6 kt cross-wind component and a 9 kt head-wind component.
The aircraft crossed the threshold at a good height, and the threshold speed was recorded at 142 kt, noted as slightly above the target.
Touchdown was achieved 210 m down the runway at a speed of 137 kt, described as a little fast. The vertical rate was smooth at minus 140 fpm, and the touchdown point was laterally offset by 8.4 m from the centreline.
Rollout covered a total distance of 1,113 m, representing 40 % of the 2,796 m runway, and the aircraft remained slightly misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline during the rollout.
With a final score of 96.7 %, the landing was strong; focus on reducing touchdown speed to the target value and tightening lateral alignment to keep touchdown and rollout points closer to the centreline.
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