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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 451 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 407 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 14 stages, 13 in the score
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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 3,655 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 800 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 407 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at KSAN San Diego International Airport, a movement that lasted 18 minutes and covered 3 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 27 with a take-off distance of 1,675 m, representing 72 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 149 kt. Local weather at departure was 26 °C with wind 14 kt from 187°, a 14 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 30 seconds, averaging 1,883 fpm and reaching 161 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,134 ft asl to 33,981 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 132 nm, beginning about 1 mile west of KSAN.
Cruise was level at 34,000 ft asl for 38 minutes, covering 334 nm, starting roughly 12 miles north of the 73CL Julian Hinds Pump Plant Airstrip.
Descent began from 33,672 ft asl to 5,520 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 143 nm, starting 15 miles west of Kanosh, with a brief level-off at 11,100 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 16R at KSLC Salt Lake City International Airport descended from 1,334 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 93 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Configuration on final was gear down at 3,062 ft agl with 204 kt, and final flap position 5 at 1,330 ft agl with 177 kt.
Landing was on runway 16R, whose length is 3,655 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 144 kt. The flare was described as very good; the aircraft dropped onto the runway at the end of the flare. Touchdown occurred 378 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 137 kt, with a hard rate of -407 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned, 6.8 m off the centreline. No bounce was observed. Local weather at landing was 17 °C with wind 17 kt from 150°, a 7 kt crosswind and a 15 kt headwind component.
The total flight covered 618 nm, lasted 93 minutes, and consumed 4,120 kg of fuel.
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