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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 13 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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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.
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 1,651 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,651 m of the 3,582 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 394 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 at Worcester Regional Airport, taking approximately 4 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 29, with a takeoff distance of 782 meters, which was 37% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 151 knots.
As the aircraft departed, it encountered local weather conditions of 8°C temperature and a wind speed of 16 knots from a direction of 270°. The crosswind component was minimal at 1 knot, while the headwind component was 15 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead Worcester Regional Airport and ascending from 2,002 feet above sea level to 13,337 feet above sea level, an increase of 11,334 feet in just 4 minutes, covering a distance of 16 nautical miles.
The enroute climb was followed by a level cruise, which started 2 miles south of Templeton, Massachusetts, and lasted for 25 minutes, covering a distance of 121 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 1 mile southwest of Muddy Paw Airport in Shelburne, Vermont, and descending from 13,236 feet above sea level to 3,392 feet above sea level, a decrease of 9,844 feet in 6 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The enroute descent was followed by another level cruise, which started 3 miles northwest of Shelburne Farms Airport in Shelburne, Vermont, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, starting 4 miles east of Keeseville, New York, and descending from 2,815 feet above sea level to 1,452 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,363 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 35 at Plattsburgh International Airport was made from the southeast, with the aircraft heading 338.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,208 feet above ground level. The landing took place on runway 35, which had a length of 3,582 meters. The threshold height was slightly above the target, but the threshold speed was good at 129 knots.
The touchdown distance was good at 394 meters, and the touchdown speed was also good at 120 knots. However, the touchdown rate was hard at -487 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.4 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 3°C temperature and a wind speed of 8 knots from a direction of 300°, with a crosswind component of 5 knots and a headwind component of 6 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,559 meters, which was 44% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned by 11.3 meters from the centerline. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, taking approximately 4 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 161 nautical miles, taking 51 minutes, and the aircraft used 1,720 kilograms of fuel.
The Airbus A319 aircraft successfully landed at KPBG Plattsburgh International Airport, with a score of 89.6%. The final approach to runway 35 was initiated from the south east, heading 338.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,208 feet above ground level (agl).
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway at a speed of 120 knots, which was within the target range. The touchdown distance of 394 meters was also satisfactory. However, the touchdown rate was slightly hard at -487 feet per minute (fpm), indicating a slightly abrupt touchdown.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 3.4 meters, which may have been due to factors such as wind or pilot error. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 3°C, with a wind speed of 8 knots from 300°. The crosswind component was 5 knots, while the headwind component was 6 knots.
The total landing distance of 1,559 meters was 44% of the runway length, which is a relatively short distance. However, the runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned from the centreline by 11.3 meters, indicating that the aircraft may have deviated from the intended path during the rollout phase.
Overall, the landing was satisfactory, with the aircraft touching down within the target range and the touchdown distance being relatively short. However, there were some minor deviations from the intended path, which may have been due to factors such as wind or pilot error.
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