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Stop the rotation once the sink is arrested at 0.3 ft, holding the normal landing attitude instead of continuing to pull back.
What happened: The flare pitch reached 4.1°, well above this type's ground attitude, and touchdown followed at a sink rate of 301 fpm. Over-rotating the flare like this usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold the normal landing attitude once sink is arrested at 0.3 ft.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 157 kt, 15 kt above the 142 kt target, and lifted off at 162 kt 2.0 s later, the nose coming up at 3.1° a second. Climb 3 averaged 169 kt, 8 kt over its 161 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 925 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,232 m of runway left; gear up at 60 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,280 fpm on average to 925 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 3,618 m runway.
Rolled from 154 m in, drifted 2.3 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 57 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 130 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.5 nm, about 490 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 2.8° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 110 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: 2.8° here, which is about 300 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 675 m right of the centreline at 2.7 nm, then inside the band from 2.3 nm to the threshold.
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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.7 nm, where the final began, to 1.5 nm (up to +52 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 4.1° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 413 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 090° at 11 kt · 11 kt head · 0 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 53 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft. Touched down 413 m in, 108 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 560 fpm at the flare to 300 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.1° 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 3,099 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.5 m of it down the rollout.
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 413 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.24 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A319 taxied from the parking area to runway 27R at KATL, a movement that required 12 minutes and covered 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 27R, the aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 2,074 m, representing 57 % of the runway, and lifted off at 162 kt; ambient temperature at the time was 33 °C.
Climb commenced 1 mile south of College Park, Georgia, with the airplane ascending from 1,978 ft asl to 37,009 ft asl, an increase of 35,030 ft achieved in 20 minutes while covering 133 nm.
Level cruise began 4 miles west of Chauncey, Georgia, and persisted for 25 minutes, during which the flight covered 187 nm.
Descent was initiated 4 miles north of Beverly Beach, Florida, with the aircraft descending from 36,982 ft asl to 561 ft asl, a loss of 36,421 ft completed in 28 minutes over a distance of 150 nm.
The final approach to runway 09R at KMLB approached from the west, aligned on a heading of 86.0° at 2 nm and 526 ft agl.
Landing on runway 09R, which is 3,099 m long, occurred with a threshold speed slightly above target at 133 kt; touchdown was recorded at 412 m down the runway with a speed of 126 kt and a firm touchdown rate of minus 390 fpm, and alignment was perfect. Local weather at the time was 31 °C with wind 11 kt from 090°, a crosswind component of 1 kt and a headwind component of 11 kt.
The rollout distance measured 1,075 m, representing 35 % of the runway, and the aircraft remained perfectly aligned throughout the deceleration phase.
After landing, the Airbus A319 taxied from the runway to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 478 nm, lasted 87 minutes, and consumed 2,959 kg of fuel.
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