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Arrival
Begin raising the nose sooner, at 11 ft, rather than waiting until 6.9 ft.
What happened: The flare began late at 6.9 ft, below the normal band.
Watch for: Radio altimeter approaching 11 ft as the cue to start the flare.
See Arrival Landing
On a 3° glideslope your sink rate in feet per minute is roughly your groundspeed in knots times five (5.3, strictly). A Cessna 172 at 65 kt groundspeed is coming down at about 345 fpm. An A320 at 140 kt groundspeed is coming down at about 740 fpm. the entire job of the flare is to take that 350 to 750 fpm and reduce it to something in the normal band, in roughly the last five seconds of the flight.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 145 kt, on the 147 kt target, and lifted off at 157 kt 4.5 s later, the nose coming up at 2.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 184 kt, 20 kt over its 164 kt target.
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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 1,006 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,305 m of runway left; gear up at 352 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,760 fpm on average to 1,006 ft.
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. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,215 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 2.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.4 m left. Airborne 49 % 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 50 ft below 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 9× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 43 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +4 kt on the approach speed of 135 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
The flare held the target profile well. The flare began at 7 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 420 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
8 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 131 kt. Touched down with the nose 5° into wind, wings level.
Wind 309° at 12 kt · 9 kt head · 8 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 7 ft. Touched down 420 m in, 116 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 250 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.4° 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 2,788 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 4.7 m left on the rollout, back to 0.6 m left by the end.
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.
The 420 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo departed from runway 33 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport. Take-off used 1,588 m, 49 % of the runway, and rotation was achieved at 145 kt. Local weather was 12 °C with wind 4 kt from 308°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 4 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 32 seconds, averaging 1,604 fpm and reaching 190 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 1,132 ft asl to 26,451 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 54 nm, beginning 1 mile south of Norderstedt.
Cruise was maintained at 27,000 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 30 nm, starting 2 miles east of Dahme. Descent began from 26,347 ft asl to 1,567 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 81 nm, with the segment starting 3 miles west of Gedser.
On final approach to runway 35 at ESMS Malmö Sturup Airport, descent from 1,383 ft agl to 66 ft agl was completed in 111 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was gear down at 3,192 ft agl, 198 kt; final flap position 5 was selected at 2,651 ft agl, 169 kt.
Landing on runway 35 used a runway length of 2,788 m with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 136 kt. The flare was described as great but started late. Touchdown occurred 420 m down the runway at 131 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 163 fpm and perfect runway alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,368 m, 49 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 173 nm in 39 minutes and consumed 211 kg of fuel. Local weather at Malmö was 12 °C with wind 13 kt from 314°, an 8 kt crosswind and a 10 kt headwind.
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