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Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 341 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 341 fpm next time
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 14 stages, 12 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 159 kt, 8 kt above the 151 kt target, and lifted off at 170 kt 3.1 s later, the nose coming up at 2.3° a second.
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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 163 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,709 m of runway left.
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.
Plan view the roll down the 2,989 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 4.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.3 m right, in 7 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 31 % 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 60 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 −0 kt and +14 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
Perfect landing flare
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 134 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 249° at 10 kt · 10 kt head · 3 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 123 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 36 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 51 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 23 ft. Touched down 604 m in, 299 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 480 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at 10 ft, then back up to 340 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° 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 3,092 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.8 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 2 m of it down 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 604 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 341 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 22R at EKCH Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, a movement that lasted 7 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 22R. The aircraft used 928 m of runway, which is 31 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 159 kt. Local weather at departure was 17 °C with wind 9 kt from 280°, giving a cross-wind component of 8 kt and a head-wind component of 5 kt.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 7 seconds, averaging 995 fpm and reaching 185 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,061 ft asl to 24,009 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 56 nm and beginning 2 nm south of Tarnby. Level flight at 24,000 ft asl was held for 3 minutes, covering 19 nm, starting 1 nm north of Sakskobing.
Descent from 23,996 ft asl to 1,401 ft asl lasted 20 minutes and covered 89 nm, beginning 6 nm south of Rodbyhavn.
On final approach to runway 23 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,408 ft agl to 77 ft agl in 108 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 2,404 ft agl while the aircraft was at 206 kt. The final flap position 5 was selected at 1,440 ft agl with a speed of 166 kt.
Landing was made on runway 23, whose length is 3,092 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 142 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 183 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 134 kt, noted as a little fast, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 342 fpm. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good; there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,230 m, representing 40 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 5 minutes and covered 1 nm. Local weather at Hamburg was 13 °C with wind 9 kt from 250°, giving a cross-wind component of 3 kt and a head-wind component of 8 kt. The entire flight covered 172 nm, lasted 46 minutes, and used 1,696 kg of fuel.
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