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Arrival
Steepen the descent on final to bring the aircraft back down to the glideslope and cross the threshold at 50 ft.
What happened: The approach was flown off the glideslope, and crossing the threshold high like this usually carries the touchdown long.
Watch for: Watch the VASI or PAPI glideslope indication against the threshold crossing height of 50 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 166 kt, 3 kt above the 163 kt target, and lifted off at 176 kt 4.2 s later, the nose coming up at 1.3° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 174 kt target, at 175 kt on average.
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 908 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,223 m of runway left; gear up at 55 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,180 fpm on average to 908 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 3,697 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 4.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.4 m right, in 5 kn of crosswind from the right. 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. 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.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.6 nm, about 730 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the glideslope.
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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 1.9 nm, then high to 1.6 nm (up to 230 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 11× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 34 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 +21 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
Perfect landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 135 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 030° at 10 kt · 10 kt head · 3 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.
From 129 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 58 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 39 ft. Touched down 406 m in, 101 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 730 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° 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 4,051 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 3.8 m left by the end of 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 406 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321neo taxied from the parking area to runway 03R at LGAV Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in 11 minutes, covering a distance of 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 03R, the aircraft accelerated for a takeoff distance of 2,123 m, which is 57 % of the runway length, and lifted off at 176 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 32 °C, wind 14 kt from 69°, a cross-wind component of 7 kt and a head-wind component of 11 kt.
The climb commenced 1 mile south-west of Artemida, with the aircraft climbing from 1,247 ft asl to 33,073 ft asl, an altitude gain of 31,826 ft achieved in 17 minutes while covering 112 nm.
Level cruise began 1 mile north of Ios and continued for 53 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 407 nm.
The first descent started 32 miles north-east of Rosetta, descending from 33,081 ft asl to 6,643 ft asl, a loss of 26,438 ft in 12 minutes over a distance of 76 nm.
A subsequent cruise segment originated 4 miles east of Quwaysina, lasting 5 minutes and covering 23 nm.
The second descent began 1 mile east of Al Qanatir al Khayriyah, with the aircraft descending from 6,013 ft asl to 1,889 ft asl, a reduction of 4,124 ft in 6 minutes while traveling 24 nm.
For the final approach to runway 05C at HECA Cairo International Airport, the aircraft approached from the south-west on a heading of 49.0°, at 4 nm and 1,536 ft agl. Weather at the time was 28 °C, wind 11 kt from 30°, a cross-wind of 4 kt and a head-wind of 10 kt.
Landing on runway 05C, which is 4,051 m long, the threshold height of 59 ft agl was slightly above target and the threshold speed was 138 kt. Touchdown occurred 406 m down the runway at 134 kt with a vertical speed of minus 257 fpm, and the touchdown point was 4.3 m off the centreline. The total landing distance recorded was 1,418 m, representing 35 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in a further 11 minutes, covering another 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 651 nm in 116 minutes and consumed 4,630 kg of fuel.
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