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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 164 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 37 kt fast at 201 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 164 kt in the climb
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 585 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 865 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 135 kt with 7.9° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 201 kt, 37 kt over its 164 kt target.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 933 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,605 m of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,530 fpm on average to 933 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 2,754 m runway.
Rolled from 679 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 9.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 9.5 m right. Airborne 33 % 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 threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 60 ft under).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 26× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 13 m 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.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo departed from runway 21 at EHEH Eindhoven Airport. Take-off was achieved after a distance of 924 m (34 % of the runway) with a liftoff speed of 135 kt. Local weather at departure was 15 °C, wind 17 kt from 250° (crosswind 10 kt, headwind 14 kt).
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 34 seconds, averaging 1 590 fpm and reaching 221 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1 022 ft asl to 2 049 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 3 nm, passing overhead Oerle. Level flight was maintained at 1 900 ft asl for 9 minutes, covering 26 nm, beginning about 1 mile east of Hoogeloon.
During final approach to runway 21 at EHEH, descent from 1 373 ft agl to 12 ft agl was completed in 115 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level.
Landing was on runway 21 (runway length 2 754 m). The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 135 kt. The flare was described as very good; the aircraft dropped onto the runway at the end of the flare. Touchdown occurred 309 m from the threshold, with a speed of 132 kt (a little fast) and a very heavy rate of -865 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 8.3 m from the centreline. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 537 m (19 % of the runway) and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 12 °C, wind 21 kt from 250° (crosswind 12 kt, headwind 17 kt). Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 36 nm in 18 minutes and used 717 kg of fuel.
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