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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 10 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 17 stages, 15 in the score
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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 3,374 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 182 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A330-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 34 at ZGSZ Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in 10 minutes, covering approximately 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 34, the aircraft accelerated to a rotation speed of 148 kt and lifted off after a takeoff distance of 1,833 m, representing 48 % of the runway length. Local weather at the time was 32 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 048°, a cross-wind component of 3 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt.
The climb began 1 mile north-west of ZGSZ, with the airplane climbing from 957 ft asl to 25,000 ft asl, an increase of 24,043 ft achieved in 13 minutes while covering 76 nm.
Level cruise commenced 21 miles south-east of ZGHZ Huizhou Pingtan, lasting 75 minutes and extending over 540 nm.
The first descent started 15 miles north-east of Lanxi, descending from 25,000 ft asl to 12,056 ft asl, a loss of 12,944 ft in 6 minutes and covering 42 nm.
A second cruise segment began 11 miles south-east of Fuyang, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 9 nm.
The subsequent descent was initiated 8 miles south of Xiaoshan, with the aircraft descending from 11,262 ft asl to 1,336 ft asl, a reduction of 9,927 ft in 11 minutes while traveling 40 nm.
On final approach to runway 24 at ZSHC Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,349 ft agl to 89 ft agl in 98 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 24, whose length is 3,374 m, the aircraft achieved a threshold speed of 139 kt, touched down after 181 m, and recorded a touchdown speed of 139 kt. The touchdown rate was hard at minus 413 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment was very good. Weather at the airport was 25 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 336°, a cross-wind component of 3 kt and no head-wind.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 973 m, equivalent to 29 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 6 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 716 nm, lasted 120 minutes, and consumed 12,132 kg of fuel.
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