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Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 1,500 ft instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 526 ft past the target, landing at 2,026 ft against the 1,500 ft aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 1,500 ft from the threshold.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 146 kt, 5 kt below the 151 kt target, and lifted off at 164 kt 5.1 s later, the nose coming up at 1.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 184 kt target, at 183 kt on average.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 861 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,225 ft of runway left; gear up at 507 ft, inside the 834 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,170 fpm on average to 861 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 10,770 ft runway.
Rolled from 225 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 14 ft at the widest, and lifted off 14 ft right. Airborne 49 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 ft above the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 7× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 190 ft off the centreline.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +6 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 141 kt.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare tracked the target profile exactly. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 2,026 ft past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 229° at 6 kt · 6 kt head · 2 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 137 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 37 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 5,597 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 32 ft, 18 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 30 ft. Touched down 2,026 ft in, 1,026 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 5,597 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 510 fpm at the flare to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 5,597 ft of the 10,819 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 3 ft of it down the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 2,026 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A330-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 19R at ESSA Stockholm-Arlanda Airport in 10 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 19R, the aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 5,249 ft, representing 49 % of the runway, and lifted off at 164 kt; ambient conditions were 60 °F with a wind of 5 kt from 239°, including a 4 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind.
The initial en-route climb commenced 1 nm east of Maersta, climbing from 1,025 ft asl to 35,500 ft asl-a gain of 34,475 ft-over 23 minutes while covering 141 nm.
Subsequent level cruise began 3 nm north-west of Vimmerby and continued for 82 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 656 nm.
A second climb started 2 nm south-east of Monostorpalyi, raising altitude from 35,996 ft asl to 38,650 ft asl, an increase of 2,654 ft achieved in 5 minutes over a distance of 38 nm.
The next cruise segment originated overhead Capalna, lasting 80 minutes and encompassing 612 nm of flight.
Descent began 15 nm south of Patmos, with the aircraft descending from 39,003 ft asl to 7,007 ft asl-a loss of 31,996 ft-in 10 minutes while covering 67 nm.
A brief cruise followed 12 nm south-west of Symi, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 7 nm.
The subsequent descent started 10 nm south-west of Symi, dropping from 6,723 ft asl to 6,005 ft asl, a reduction of 718 ft in 2 minutes across 8 nm.
Another cruise segment commenced 6 nm north-west of Fanes, lasting 3 minutes and covering 15 nm.
The final descent began 2 nm south of Rodos, descending from 5,561 ft asl to 1,341 ft asl-a loss of 4,220 ft-in 4 minutes while traveling 14 nm.
The aircraft entered the final approach to runway 24 at LGRP Diagoras Airport from the east, on a heading of 252.0° at 4 nm and 1,312 ft agl.
Landing on runway 24, which is 10,819 ft long, was achieved with a total landing distance of 5,334 ft (49 % of runway); the threshold speed was 147 kt, touchdown occurred 663 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 140 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 159 fpm and a lateral deviation of 12 ft from the centreline. Weather at the time was 77 °F with a wind of 6 kt from 229°, including a 2 kt cross-wind and a 6 kt head-wind.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,568 nm, lasted 223 minutes, and consumed 44,572 lb of fuel.
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