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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 10 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
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 1.3 ft, 10 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.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 19 stages, 17 in the score
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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 3,198 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 112 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A330-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 25 at ZSHC Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, covering 2 nm in 9 minutes.
During the departure roll on runway 25 the aircraft used 1,799 m of runway, representing 50 % of the available length, and rotated at 138 kt. Ambient conditions were 26 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 292°, providing a 1 kt headwind and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
Climb commenced 1 mile south-west of ZSHC, where the airplane rose from 965 ft asl to 7,873 ft asl, an altitude gain of 6,908 ft achieved in 3 minutes while covering 13 nm.
The first level cruise began 4 miles south-west of Xiaoshan and lasted 5 minutes, during which the flight covered 21 nm.
A second climb segment started 11 miles north-west of Hangzhou; altitude increased from 7,878 ft asl to 30,998 ft asl, a gain of 23,119 ft in 17 minutes over a distance of 104 nm.
The subsequent cruise phase originated 6 miles south-west of ZSNJ Nanjing Lukou International Airport and continued for 69 minutes, encompassing 519 nm of flight.
Descent began 15 miles north of Hengshui, with the aircraft descending from 31,000 ft asl to 16,389 ft asl, a loss of 14,611 ft in 9 minutes while traveling 63 nm.
A brief level cruise followed 13 miles north of Renqiu, lasting 2 minutes and covering 10 nm.
The final descent started 21 miles north of Renqiu, dropping from 16,001 ft asl to 1,386 ft asl, a decrease of 14,615 ft in 16 minutes across 72 nm.
On final approach to runway 36L at ZBAA Beijing Capital International Airport the aircraft descended from 1,332 ft agl to 46 ft agl in 100 seconds, scoring on the stabilisation gates. Weather at the time was 21 °C with a wind of 10 kt from 284°, giving a 4 kt headwind and a 9 kt cross-wind component.
Landing on runway 36L, whose length is 3,198 m, was executed with a threshold speed of 146 kt. Touchdown occurred 112 m down the runway at 145 kt, with a hard touchdown rate of minus 497 fpm and a lateral deviation of 3.7 m from the centreline. The total landing distance measured 895 m, representing 28 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was recorded as very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area, covering 2 nm in 11 minutes.
In total the flight covered 813 nm, required 137 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 13,512 kg of fuel.
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