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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 0.7° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 2.9° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 458 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 480 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed above the reference speed.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,059 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 621 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, an Airbus A320, then departed from runway 28 at Zürich Airport (LSZH) in Switzerland. The takeoff distance was 1,810 meters, which accounted for 73% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 158 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 6 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 6 knots from a direction of 250 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 5 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead Hofstetten in the Kanton Zurich region of Switzerland. The climb took 21 minutes and covered a distance of 120 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 2,951 feet above sea level to 35,979 feet above sea level, an increase of 33,028 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started overhead Teting-sur-Nied in the Grand Est region of France. This phase lasted for 75 minutes and covered a distance of 519 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 24 miles northwest of Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The descent took 20 minutes and covered a distance of 47 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 35,981 feet above sea level to 2,994 feet above sea level, a decrease of 32,986 feet.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 1 mile west of Duleek in the Leinster region of Ireland. This phase lasted for only 3 minutes and covered a distance of 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, starting 1 mile northwest of Oldtown in the Leinster region of Ireland. The descent took 2 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 2,576 feet above sea level to 1,499 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,078 feet.
The final approach to runway 16 at Dublin Airport (EIDW) was made from the northwest, with the aircraft heading 157.0 degrees at an altitude of 4 nautical miles and 1,274 feet above ground level. However, the aircraft was forced to execute a go-around at an altitude of 262 feet above ground level. The aircraft then landed on runway 16, which had a length of 2,059 meters. The threshold height at 62 feet above ground level was above the target, and the threshold speed was well above the target at 149 knots.
The touchdown point was 199 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 134 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was firm at -398 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 6 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 18 knots from a direction of 120 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 11 knots and a headwind of 15 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,175 meters, which accounted for 57% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 10.6 meters from the centerline. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 2 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 711 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 157 minutes. The aircraft used 6,410 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A320 successfully landed at Dublin Airport, achieving a score of 90.3%. The aircraft was approaching runway 16 from the north-west, heading 157.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,274 feet above ground level (agl). The landing was executed on a runway with a length of 2,059 meters.
Upon reaching the threshold, the aircraft was found to be above the target height at 62 feet agl, indicating a slight deviation from the ideal approach path. Additionally, the threshold speed was significantly higher than the target speed at 149 knots, suggesting that the aircraft may have been descending too quickly or that the pilots may have been attempting to maintain a higher speed to compensate for the crosswind.
The touchdown point was located 199 meters beyond the designated touchdown zone, which may indicate that the pilots were unable to maintain the desired touchdown point or that the aircraft was experiencing some degree of drift due to the crosswind. The touchdown speed of 134 knots was slightly faster than the target speed, resulting in a firm touchdown rate of -398 feet per minute (fpm).
Despite the slight deviations from the ideal approach path, the runway touchdown alignment was found to be very good, indicating that the pilots were able to maintain a stable and aligned approach to the runway. The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were characterized by a temperature of 6°C and a wind speed of 18 knots from a direction of 120°, resulting in a crosswind of 11 knots and a headwind of 15 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,175 meters, which represents 57% of the runway length. This is a relatively short landing distance, indicating that the pilots were able to maintain a stable and controlled approach to the runway. However, the runway rollout alignment was found to be slightly misaligned by 10.6 meters from the centerline, suggesting that the pilots may have experienced some difficulty in maintaining a stable and aligned rollout after touchdown.
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