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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 11 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 9.3 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 67 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,041 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 319 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 12R at KMSP Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 12R, the aircraft used 1,210 m of runway, representing 40 % of the available length, and lifted off at 146 kt. Ambient conditions were 27 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 330°, a 3 kt crosswind component and a 6 kt tailwind.
The en-route climb commenced 1 mile southeast of KMSP, where the aircraft ascended from 1,819 ft asl to 4,093 ft asl, a gain of 2,274 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 8 nm.
Level cruise began 2 miles northeast of Sunfish Lake and was maintained for 3 minutes, during which the aircraft traveled 15 nm.
Descent operations started overhead Robbinsdale, with the aircraft descending from 4,094 ft asl to 2,131 ft asl, a loss of 1,963 ft in 3 minutes and a distance of 11 nm.
The final approach to runway 12R was executed from the northwest, on a heading of 121.0°, at 4 nm from the threshold and 1,289 ft agl.
A go-around was initiated on runway 12R at an altitude of 456 ft agl, after which the aircraft re-entered the approach sequence.
Landing on runway 12R, which is 3,041 m long, occurred with a threshold speed slightly above target at 124 kt. Touchdown was recorded at 319 m down the runway, with a speed of 123 kt and a heavy rate of -649 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 11.6 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 1,085 m, equivalent to 36 % of the runway. Local weather at landing was 24 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 20°, a 7 kt crosswind component and a 1 kt tailwind.
Runway rollout alignment was excessively misaligned, deviating 66.9 m from the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 77 nm, required 32 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 947 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 737-700 executed a final approach to runway 30L at KMSP Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport from the south-east, maintaining a heading of 302.0° at 4 nm and 1,268 ft AGL; the approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits, and the overall score was 100.0 %.
During the threshold and flare phase the runway length was 3,045 m, the threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was good at 128 kt. Touchdown occurred 71 m beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 118 kt that was good, a smooth touchdown rate of minus 136 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
Touchdown was achieved with the aircraft aligned perfectly on the centreline, the local weather reporting a temperature of 20 °C, wind 2 kt from 229°, a crosswind component of 2 kt and a headwind component of 1 kt, confirming the good speed and rate figures recorded.
Rollout continued with a total landing distance of 1,004 m, representing 33 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment remained perfect.
Maintain the current technique that produced a fully stabilised approach and precise touchdown, while continuing to monitor cross-wind components to ensure the same level of alignment and distance performance.
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