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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 15°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,727 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,727 m of the 3,291 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 196 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 25L at Brussels Airport (EBBR) in 6 minutes, covering approximately 1 nm.
Takeoff was executed on runway 25L with a ground roll of 2,284 m, representing 71 % of the available runway, and liftoff was achieved at 143 kt. Local conditions reported a temperature of 20 °C, wind 16 kt from 220 °, a cross-wind component of 8 kt and a head-wind component of 14 kt.
Climb began overhead Zaventem, ascending from 985 ft asl to 14,010 ft asl, an increase of 13,025 ft in 6 minutes while covering 30 nm.
The first cruise segment started over Zuiddorpe and lasted 7 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 44 nm at level flight.
Descent commenced 1 mile north-west of Brielle, descending from 13,874 ft asl to 7,560 ft asl, a loss of 6,313 ft in 5 minutes and covering 25 nm.
A second cruise phase over Abbenes lasted 2 minutes and spanned 7 nm.
The next descent began 1 mile south of Lijnden, dropping from 7,408 ft asl to 2,035 ft asl, a decrease of 5,373 ft in 5 minutes while covering 17 nm.
A third cruise segment over Zaandijk lasted 3 minutes and covered 5 nm.
Final approach to runway 18C at Amsterdam Schiphol (EHAM) was conducted from the north, on a heading of 183.0 °, at 4 nm and 1,293 ft agl.
Landing on runway 18C was performed on a runway 3,291 m long; the threshold speed was 135 kt, touchdown occurred at 196 m down the runway with a speed of 134 kt, and the touchdown rate was minus 689 fpm. The touchdown alignment was perfect. Weather at the time was 17 °C, wind 20 kt from 200 °, cross-wind 6 kt and head-wind 19 kt. Total landing distance measured 1,643 m, equal to 50 % of the runway, and the rollout was laterally offset by 20.3 m from the centreline.
The rollout continued after touchdown, during which the aircraft decelerated and came to a stop, with the final alignment noted as 20.3 m off the centreline.
Taxi-in from the runway to the parking area required 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 138 nm, lasted 38 minutes, and consumed 1,421 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320 entered final approach to runway 18C at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol from the north on a heading of 183.0° at 4 nm and 1,293 ft agl. Local weather was 17 °C with wind 20 kt from 200°, providing a 19 kt headwind and a 6 kt crosswind. The approach was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate because the gear was not down.
At the threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and a threshold speed that was good at 135 kt. The flare produced a touchdown distance that was good at 196 m and a touchdown speed of 134 kt that was a little fast. The touchdown rate was heavy at minus 689 fpm and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
Touchdown occurred with the aircraft aligned on the centreline, speed at 134 kt, and a heavy vertical rate of minus 689 fpm. The distance from the threshold to the main gear contact remained within the good range at 196 m.
Rollout used a total landing distance of 1,643 m, representing 50 % of the 3,291 m runway, but runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 20.3 m from the centreline.
To improve future performance, ensure the landing gear is lowered before the 1,000 ft gate to achieve a stable approach, and manage the descent profile to reduce the heavy touchdown rate while maintaining the aim point near 300 m down the runway. Maintaining centreline tracking during rollout will also bring the alignment within tolerance.
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