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Reduce power on approach to bring threshold speed back to 130 kt.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 136 kt, 6 kt above the 130 kt target, then ballooned in the flare as the excess speed met the flare's back pressure. Crossing fast and ballooning like this usually carries the touchdown long.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 130 kt at the threshold
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed 55 kt FAST on the reference speed of 130 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,656 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,656 m of the 3,335 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 581 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 28 at LSZH Zürich Airport in 7 minutes, covering a distance of 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 28, the aircraft accelerated to a rotation speed of 148 kt and lifted off after a takeoff distance of 1,249 m, which represented 50 % of the runway length; ambient temperature was 17 °C with a wind of 11 kt from 250°, including a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 10 kt head-wind.
Climb commenced over Rumlang in the canton of Zurich, with the flight ascending from 2,493 ft asl to 19,010 ft asl, a gain of 16,517 ft achieved in 9 minutes while covering 41 nm.
Level cruise began over Rickenbach bei Wil in the canton of Thurgau and was maintained for 6 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 44 nm.
Descent was initiated 2 miles north of Ostrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with the aircraft descending from 18,987 ft asl to 2,556 ft asl, a loss of 16,432 ft in 12 minutes and a distance of 56 nm.
A go-around was executed on runway 25 at EDDS Stuttgart Airport at an altitude of 212 ft agl.
The final approach to runway 25 at Stuttgart proceeded from 1,393 ft agl to 138 ft agl in 98 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 25, which is 3,335 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 136 kt; the touchdown point was 164 m beyond the touchdown zone, the touchdown speed remained 136 kt, and the vertical speed was minus 109 fpm. The touchdown location was offset by 6.8 m from the centreline. Local conditions were 13 °C with a wind of 14 kt from 240°, including a 3 kt cross-wind and a 14 kt head-wind. The total landing distance measured 1,436 m, representing 43 % of the runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 6 minutes, covering an additional 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 198 nm, took 55 minutes, and consumed 2,138 kg of fuel.
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