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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 7.9 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Apply steady, continuous back pressure through the flare to arrest the sink smoothly and hold the normal profile, rather than letting it drift.
What happened: The flare did not hold its target profile, with the sink most arrested at 0.2 ft, and this flight then touched down at 238 fpm of sink - a firm arrival. An unsettled flare profile like this usually carries through to a firmer touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smooth, steadily decreasing sink rate through the flare to touchdown.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,737 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 212 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The Airbus A320 then departed from runway 25 at KDEN Denver International Airport, with a takeoff distance of 2,147 meters, which accounted for 59% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 148 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it encountered local weather conditions of 30°C temperature and winds of 14 knots at 150°. The crosswind was 12 knots, while the tailwind was 7 knots. After departing from KDEN, the aircraft began its enroute climb, starting 3 miles southwest of the airport and rising from 6,305 feet above sea level to 38,457 feet, an increase of 32,152 feet in 11 minutes, covering a distance of 112 nautical miles.
The enroute climb continued until the aircraft reached a point 1 mile northeast of the Glen-Aspen Airport (4CO0) in Carbondale, Colorado, where it transitioned to a level cruise. This phase of the flight lasted 22 minutes and covered 471 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 20 miles east of Baker, California, and descending from 39,390 feet to 1,325 feet, a decrease of 38,065 feet in 26 minutes, covering a distance of 145 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its final approach to runway 20R at KSNA John Wayne Orange County International Airport, coming in from the northeast at a heading of 208.0°, 4 nautical miles from the runway and 1,256 feet above ground level. The aircraft landed on the runway, which had a length of 1,737 meters, and had a good threshold height. The threshold speed was also good at 135 knots, and the touchdown distance was 213 meters, which was within acceptable limits.
However, the touchdown speed of 133 knots was a little fast, and the touchdown rate was hard at -466 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the local weather conditions at the time of landing were 20°C temperature and winds of 7 knots at 200°, with a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 7 knots. The total landing distance was 1,013 meters, which accounted for 58% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 737 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 69 minutes. The aircraft used 4,512 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A320 successfully landed at KSNA John Wayne Orange County International Airport, achieving a score of 97.3%. The aircraft approached the runway from the north east, heading 208.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,256 feet above ground level (agl). The final approach was executed with precision, and the aircraft landed safely on runway 20R, which has a length of 1,737 meters.
The threshold height was satisfactory, and the threshold speed of 135 knots was well within the acceptable range. The touchdown distance of 213 meters was also within the expected parameters. However, the touchdown speed of 133 knots was slightly higher than the ideal speed, which may have contributed to a harder touchdown rate of -466 feet per minute (fpm). Despite this, the runway touchdown alignment was very good, indicating that the aircraft was properly aligned with the runway.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were favorable, with a temperature of 20°C and a wind speed of 7 knots from 200°. The crosswind component was minimal at 1 knot, while the headwind component was 7 knots, which helped to reduce the landing distance. The total landing distance of 1,013 meters was 58% of the runway length, indicating a relatively short landing roll.
The runway rollout alignment was also very good, suggesting that the aircraft was properly controlled during the landing roll. Overall, the landing was executed with precision and control, and the aircraft was safely brought to a stop on the runway.
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