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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 3.7° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 2.6° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 8,984 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,346 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from KCAE Columbia Metropolitan Airport, the Airbus A319 began its journey with a taxiing phase that lasted 13 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. Upon reaching the runway, the aircraft initiated its departure roll on runway 23, utilizing 3,004 feet, or 43% of the runway's length, to achieve liftoff at a speed of 143 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 70°F, with a gentle headwind of 3 knots from a direction of 220°.
As the aircraft climbed to its enroute altitude, it traversed a distance of 62 nautical miles in 11 minutes, ascending from 1,201 feet above sea level to 27,948 feet. The climb phase was followed by a brief level cruise, lasting 5 minutes and covering 37 nautical miles, before the aircraft began its descent towards its destination. The descent phase, which spanned 26 minutes and covered 129 nautical miles, saw the aircraft decrease its altitude from 27,997 feet to 3,131 feet. The aircraft then leveled off for a short period, cruising at an altitude of 3,131 feet for 4 minutes and covering 10 nautical miles.
Upon approaching KATL Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the aircraft initiated its final approach to runway 08L from the west, aligning itself with the runway at a height of 1,291 feet above ground level. The landing was executed with a touchdown speed of 124 knots, which was slightly above the target speed. The aircraft touched down 584 feet beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown rate of -579 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned, deviating 13 feet from the centerline. The total landing distance was 4,388 feet, or 49% of the runway's length. Following a smooth rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, concluding its journey with a total flight distance of 246 nautical miles and a fuel consumption of 4,985 pounds, having taken 61 minutes to complete the flight.
The final approach to runway 08L at KATL Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport was initiated from the west, heading 90.0° at 4 nm and 1,291 ft above ground level. The approach quality was satisfactory, with a threshold height of 65 ft agl, which was above the target. The threshold speed was good at 130 kt, indicating a well-executed approach.
As the aircraft touched down on the runway, the touchdown point was 584 ft beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was a little fast at 124 kt. The touchdown rate was very hard at -579 fpm, which may have been due to the high touchdown speed. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 13 ft from the centreline, which could have been a result of the crosswind or pilot error. Local weather conditions were favorable, with a temperature of 70 °F, wind at 3 kt at 240°, and a crosswind of 1 kt and a tailwind of 2 kt.
The total landing distance was 4,388 ft, which accounted for 49% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good, indicating that the aircraft was well-controlled during the rollout phase. Overall, the landing performance was satisfactory, with a score of 90.7%.
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