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Fly a stabilized approach and flare to touch down at the target point of 457 m.
What happened: Touchdown occurred past the normal point, landing 149 m beyond the target distance. This pattern typically reduces the margin available for stopping before the runway end.
Watch for: Watch touchdown point against the 457 m marker.
Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep wings level during the climb.
What happened: Bank angle increased during the climb, drifting wider than it should have.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,750 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,750 m of the 3,185 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 606 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxied from the parking area to runway 12 at LFOB Paris-Beauvais Airport in 9 minutes, covering approximately 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 12, the aircraft used 1,692 m of runway, representing 71 % of the available length, and lifted off at 161 kt. Ambient conditions were 21 °C with a wind from 219° at 11 kt, including an 11 kt crosswind component and a 1 kt tailwind.
Climb commenced 1 mile north of Therdonne, with the airplane ascending from 1,148 ft asl to 35,000 ft asl-a gain of 33,852 ft-over 20 minutes while covering 118 nm.
The cruise segment began overhead Marcilly-en-Villette and continued for 150 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 1,096 nm at the assigned cruising altitude.
Descent was initiated 8 miles south-east of Youssoufia, descending from 35,000 ft asl to 1,493 ft asl, a loss of 33,507 ft, in 25 minutes and covering 131 nm.
For the final approach to runway 27 at GMAD Al Massira Airport, the flight approached from the east on a heading of 272.0° at 4 nm and 1,258 ft agl.
Landing on runway 27 was executed with a threshold speed of 152 kt; touchdown occurred 188 m beyond the touchdown zone at 146 kt, a speed noted as slightly fast, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 202 fpm. The runway length is 3,185 m, and the aircraft’s touchdown alignment was perfect. Local weather reported a temperature of 29 °C, wind from 260° at 12 kt (headwind component 12 kt, crosswind 2 kt).
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,667 m, equivalent to 52 % of the runway, and the alignment during rollout remained perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 7 minutes, traveling less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,354 nm, took 211 minutes, and consumed 7,638 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A321 completed the final approach to runway 25L at KLAX from the east, tracking a heading of 263.0° at 4 nm and 1,142 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits; local weather was 22 °C with a 10 kt wind from 260°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 10 kt head-wind.
Threshold height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 134 kt.
Touchdown occurred 424 m down the runway, a distance described as good, with a touchdown speed of 132 kt also judged good. The touchdown rate was smooth at -140 fpm, while the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 7.0 m from the centreline.
Runway rollout alignment was very good and the total landing distance was 1,358 m, representing 40 % of the 3,377 m runway length.
Maintain precise lateral alignment on final approach to keep touchdown within a few metres of the centreline, and verify crab de-rotation timing to consistently achieve the standard 300 m (1,000 ft) aim point.
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