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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
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.
One stabilised approach gate: five 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,570 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 584 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Airbus A320 began with a quick taxi from the parking area to the runway, covering 1 nm in 4 minutes. Departure was from runway 35L at LTFM Istanbul with a takeoff distance of 7,045 ft, representing 53% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 167 knots, with local weather conditions showing a temperature of 66 °F and a 9 knot wind coming from 80°. The crosswind was measured at 9 knots, with a 1 knot headwind component.
The enroute climb started 2 miles northwest of LTFM Istanbul, climbing from 1,286 ft to 36,375 ft in 23 minutes, covering a distance of 138 nm. The level cruise started 8 miles southwest of Sliven, Bulgaria and lasted 121 minutes, covering 820 nm. The descent began 2 miles southwest of Torgnon, Italy, descending from 35,334 ft to 8,938 ft in 13 minutes, covering 56 nm. Another brief level cruise segment occurred 2 miles south of Lausanne, Switzerland for 2 minutes, covering 7 nm. The final descent started overhead Vufflens-le-Chateau, descending from 8,832 ft to 3,019 ft in 5 minutes, covering 16 nm.
The landing took place on runway 22 at LSGG Geneva, which has a length of 11,713 ft. The aircraft touched down 1,916 ft from the threshold at a speed of 135 knots, with a vertical speed indicator showing -253 ft/m. The local weather at Geneva reported a temperature of 65 °F, with a 5 knot wind coming from 189°. The crosswind was measured at 3 knots, with a 4 knot headwind component. The total landing distance was 4,758 ft, representing 41% of the runway length.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, covering less than 1 nm in 4 minutes. The total flight distance for this journey was 1,047 nm, taking a total of 174 minutes and consuming 15,653 lbs of fuel.
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