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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 14 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Begin raising the nose earlier, by 11 ft, so the flare has time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 0.3 ft, 11 ft below the normal band, and a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and start the flare in the normal band, around 11 ft.
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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,570 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 499 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320 taxied from the parking area to runway 04L at LIPZ Venice Marco Polo Airport, covering 2 nm in 11 minutes.
During the departure roll on runway 04L, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 1,824 m, representing 66 % of the runway, and lifted off at 160 kt. Local weather at the time was temperature 36 °C, wind 17 kt at 70°, with a cross-wind component of 8 kt and a head-wind component of 15 kt.
Climb commenced one mile north-east of Tessera (Veneto, Italy), with the A320 ascending from 921 ft asl to 30,606 ft asl - an increase of 29,685 ft - over 15 minutes while covering 83 nm.
The first cruise segment began one mile north-west of Gardone Riviera (Lombardia, Italy) and lasted 16 minutes, during which 111 nm were flown.
Descent started two miles north of Gaby (Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, Italy), descending from 31,004 ft asl to 19,008 ft asl - a loss of 11,996 ft - in 9 minutes and covering 53 nm.
A brief cruise followed two miles south-east of Magland (Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France), lasting 2 minutes and spanning 9 nm.
The next descent began overhead Marignier (Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France), dropping from 18,981 ft asl to 5,975 ft asl - a decrease of 13,007 ft - in 8 minutes while covering 39 nm.
A short cruise segment started two miles south-west of Chanay (Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France), lasting 2 minutes and covering 6 nm.
Descent over Franclens (Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France) reduced altitude from 6,032 ft asl to 2,720 ft asl - a loss of 3,312 ft - in 4 minutes, traversing 11 nm.
The final approach to runway 04 at LSGG Geneva Cointrin International Airport was executed from the south-west, on a heading of 45.0° at 4 nm and 1,310 ft agl.
Landing on runway 04, whose length is 3,570 m, occurred with a threshold speed of 142 kt. Touchdown was 87 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 139 kt, with a hard touchdown rate of minus 411 fpm and a lateral deviation of 3.6 m from the centreline. Local conditions were temperature 26 °C, wind 6 kt at 70°, cross-wind 3 kt and head-wind 6 kt.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,291 m
The Airbus A320 approached runway 04 at LSGG Geneva Cointrin International Airport from the south-west on a heading of 45.0° at 4 nm and 1,310 ft agl, with temperature 26 °C, wind 6 kt at 70°, crosswind 3 kt and headwind 6 kt. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
During the threshold and flare segment the threshold speed was slightly above target at 142 kt and the threshold height was good. The aircraft flared and the touchdown point was 87 m beyond the touchdown zone.
Touchdown occurred at a speed of 139 kt, described as a little fast, with a hard sink rate of minus 411 fpm. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.6 m from centreline and the total landing distance was 1,291 m, representing 36 % of the 3,570 m runway.
Rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.6 m from centreline.
Refine flare technique to reduce the hard minus 411 fpm sink rate and achieve a smoother touchdown. Adjust the aim point to keep touchdown within the zone, which will also improve centreline alignment on rollout.
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