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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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
Side view — the last 1,795 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,795 m of the 2,483 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 944 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Airbus A321 from LPPT Lisbon to LPMA Madeira took a total of 108 minutes and covered a distance of 521 nm. The taxiing from the parking to the runway took 7 minutes and covered 2 nm. The departure roll was from runway 20 at LPPT Lisbon, with a takeoff distance of 1,471 m (47% of the runway). The liftoff speed was 172 kn. The local weather at departure was temperature 18 °C, wind 2 kn at 210 ° with a crosswind of 0 kn and a headwind of 2 kn.
The enroute climb started overhead Alvalade (Distrito de Lisboa, Portugal) and climbed from 1,294 ft asl to 36,483 ft asl, covering 140 nm and taking 23 minutes. The enroute level cruise started at Latitude: 37.1345361, Longitude: -11.3031901 and lasted 39 minutes, covering 259 nm. The enroute descent started 87 miles northeast of LPPS Porto Santo Porto Santo (Madeira, Portugal), descending from 37,019 ft asl to 1,805 ft asl, covering 112 nm and taking 22 minutes.
The landing was on runway 23 at LPMA Madeira, with a runway length of 2,483 m. The height at threshold was 38 ft agl and the speed at threshold was 123 kn. The touchdown occurred 945 m from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 116 kn and a VSI of -177 ft/m. The local weather at arrival was temperature 27 °C, wind 9 kn at 210 ° with a crosswind of 2 kn and a headwind of 9 kn. The total landing distance was 1,709 m, which was 69% of the runway.
After landing, taxiing from the runway to the parking took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight used 4,439 kg of fuel.
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