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Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 74 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 74 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, well above the normal profile. The touchdown point was also long at 569 m against a 457 m target, a pattern often seen after high threshold crossings.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 152 kt, 4 kt above the 148 kt target, and lifted off at 164 kt 4.4 s later, the nose coming up at 1.8° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 164 kt target, at 159 kt on average.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 963 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 981 m of runway left; gear up at 58 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,600 fpm on average to 963 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 2,611 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 8 m at the widest, and lifted off 8.3 m right, in 13 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 50 % 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 90 ft above the slope.
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. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 10 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −6 kt and +20 kt on the approach speed of 139 kt.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare tracked the target profile exactly. The flare was flown from 74 ft agl over the threshold, well above the target height, so the aircraft was above the profile for most of the landing. Touchdown was 569 m past the threshold. The flare cannot recover height that was never lost - fly the approach down to the aim point and the flare has somewhere to start from.
14 kt across from the left, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 126 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 180° at 26 kt · 21 kt head · 14 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 107 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 23 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 73 ft, 23 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 24 ft. Touched down 569 m in, 264 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 620 fpm at the flare to 360 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.8° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,754 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.5 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2.6 m left by the end of the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 569 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 355 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 05 at EDHI Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport in 12 minutes, covering 3 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 05 with a take-off distance of 1,316 m, using 50 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 152 kt. Local weather was 14 °C with wind 18 kt from 138°, giving a crosswind component of 18 kt and a headwind component of 1 kt.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 20 seconds, averaging 2,302 fpm and reaching 159 kt at the top. The climb continued from 1,113 ft asl to 27,517 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 56 nm, beginning about 1 mile north-east of the departure airport.
Level cruise was flown at 28,000 ft asl for 17 minutes, covering 101 nm, beginning about 2 miles south of Uthlede.
Descent began from 27,621 ft asl to 1,488 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 87 nm, starting about 2 miles south-east of Raalte.
Final approach to runway 21 at EHEH Eindhoven Airport descended from 1,444 ft agl to 126 ft agl in 126 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration on final was flaps fully retracted at 2,469 ft agl, speed 264 kt.
Landing on runway 21 (runway length 2,754 m) had a threshold height of 74 ft agl, noted as well above target, and a threshold speed of 133 kt, described as good. The aircraft crossed the threshold high, flared perfectly, and touched down 144 m beyond the touchdown zone. Touchdown speed was 126 kt, rated good, with a firm rate of minus 356 fpm. The touchdown point was 7.6 m off the centreline. Local weather was 12 °C with wind 26 kt from 180°, giving a crosswind component of 15 kt and a headwind component of 21 kt. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,072 m, 39 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 9 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 253 nm in 63 minutes and used 2,241 kg of fuel.
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