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Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 161 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 134 kt against a target of 161 kt, running 27 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 161 kt.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,695 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 358 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 09R at EGLL London Heathrow Airport, a movement that lasted 9 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 09R, the Airbus A319 accelerated through a takeoff distance of 880 m, representing 26 % of the runway length, and lifted off at 135 kt. Ambient conditions were 27 °C with a wind from 090° at 16 kt, providing a headwind component of 16 kt and no cross-wind.
Climb commenced 1 mile north-west of Feltham, advancing from 1,057 ft asl to 22,366 ft asl, an altitude gain of 21,309 ft achieved in 9 minutes while covering 48 nm.
Cruise began 1 mile south-west of Faversham and was maintained for 25 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 185 nm at level flight.
Descent was initiated overhead Esneux, descending from 23,016 ft asl to 1,312 ft asl, a loss of 21,704 ft over 13 minutes and a distance of 68 nm.
The final approach to runway 05R at EDDL Düsseldorf Airport was flown from the south-west on a heading of 53.0°, intercepting the approach at 4 nm and 1,175 ft agl.
Landing on runway 05R was executed with a threshold speed of 133 kt; touchdown occurred 360 m down the runway at 121 kt and a vertical speed of minus 190 fpm. The runway length is 2,695 m, and the aircraft’s alignment on touchdown was reported as perfect. Local weather at the time was 26 °C with a wind from 070° at 12 kt, providing a headwind component of 12 kt and a cross-wind of 4 kt.
Rollout continued for a total landing distance of 1,325 m, equivalent to 49 % of the runway, and the alignment during rollout remained perfect.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In summary, the flight covered 309 nm, required 61 minutes from departure to arrival, and consumed 2,444 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A319 established a final approach to runway 05R at EDDL Düsseldorf from the south-west, tracking a heading of 53.0° at 4 NM and 1,175 ft agl. Local conditions were a temperature of 26 °C with wind 12 kt from 070°, providing a 12 kt headwind component and a 4 kt crosswind component. The overall landing score was recorded as 99.8 %.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and the threshold speed was good at 133 kt.
Touchdown occurred 360 m down the runway, a good distance, with a touchdown speed of 121 kt that was good and a touchdown rate of minus 190 fpm that was good. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect and the total landing distance measured 1,325 m, representing 49 % of the available runway.
During rollout the aircraft kept perfect runway rollout alignment.
Maintain the precise flare height and touchdown speed that produced the current touchdown distance and rate, and continue to monitor the touchdown rate to keep it at the observed minus 190 fpm level for consistent performance.
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