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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 2.5° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 8.7° 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,202 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 249 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This flight originated at LEIB Ibiza Airport, where the Airbus A320 began taxiing from the parking area to the runway for departure. The taxiing process took approximately 7 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft departed from runway 24, with a takeoff distance of 1,936 meters (69% of the runway length) and achieved liftoff speed of 163 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it was influenced by local weather conditions. The temperature was observed to be 29 degrees Celsius, with a wind blowing at 5 knots from a direction of 200 degrees. Breakdown of the wind components revealed a crosswind of 3 knots and a headwind of 4 knots.
Following departure, the aircraft commenced an enroute climb, initiating at 1 mile southwest of LEIB Ibiza Airport. The aircraft climbed from a height of 1,000 feet above sea level to 36,756 feet above sea level, thereby increasing its altitude by 35,756 feet in 22 minutes while covering a distance of 128 nautical miles.
Subsequently, the aircraft transitioned into enroute level cruise, which started 17 miles southwest of Alaior, Spain. During this phase, the aircraft maintained a stable altitude for a duration of 111 minutes, covering a distance of 813 nautical miles.
The enroute descent commenced 6 miles northwest of Metochi, Greece, where the aircraft descended from a height of 36,924 feet above sea level to 1,541 feet above sea level, thereby reducing its altitude by 35,383 feet in 24 minutes and covering a distance of 124 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 03L at LGAV Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport began from a position southwest of the airport, with the aircraft initially flying at an altitude of 4 nautical miles and 1,253 feet above ground level, heading 37.0 degrees.
The aircraft landed on runway 03L, which had a length of 3,202 meters. The local weather conditions consisted of a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius and a wind blowing at 29 knots from a direction of 39 degrees, with a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 29 knots. The aircraft touched down at a distance of 252 meters, with a touchdown speed of 151 knots being slightly faster than the target speed. The touchdown rate was heavy at -648 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The aircraft then proceeded towards the parking area, and taxiing from the runway to the parking took approximately 9 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,074 nautical miles, taking a total time of 174 minutes while utilizing 6,819 kilograms of fuel.
The landing of the Airbus A320 on runway 03L at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (LGAV) can be considered a relatively successful event. The aircraft successfully completed its final approach from the south-west, maintaining a heading of 37.0° and flying at 4 nautical miles with an altitude of 1,253 feet above ground level (agl). Upon landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway at a distance of 252 meters, meeting the requirements for touch down distance. However, the touchdown speed was slightly faster than expected at 151 knots.
Upon further analysis, it appears that the aircraft experienced some difficulties during the landing. The threshold height was slightly higher than expected at 55 feet agl, indicating that the aircraft descended at slightly higher rate than anticipated. Additionally, the threshold speed was also above the target at 143 kt, suggesting some potential control issues during the final descent. Furthermore, the touchdown rate was recorded as heavy at -648 feet per minute (fpm), indicating that the aircraft descended at an excessive rate, resulting in a potentially hard landing on the runway.
In spite of these issues, the aircraft's runway alignment was perfect during both touchdown and rollout phases. The local weather conditions, as recorded during the landing event, consisted of a temperature of 26°C and a wind speed of 29 knots coming from a direction of 39°. The crosswind component was minimal at 2 kt, but the headwind component was significant at 29 kt, indicating that the pilots had to consider this factor during the landing. Overall, while the Airbus A320 experienced some challenges during the landing, it successfully navigated the airport and touched down safely on the runway.
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