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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 4.9 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Ease the pitch and add power earlier on final to arrest the descent rate before reaching the stabilisation gate.
What happened: On the approach, the aircraft's sink rate exceeded the stabilised gate limit, tripping a sink-rate fault at the gate check.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, stabilised descent rate approaching the gate
See Arrival Approach
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 14 stages, 13 scored
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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: sink rate 1,558 fpm, more than the glideslope needed and centreline 1.3° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,756 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,756 m of the 2,989 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 475 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied to runway 25 at LFPO Paris-Orly and commenced the departure roll, achieving a takeoff distance of 1,327 m which represented 46 % of the runway. Liftoff occurred at 160 kt under a temperature of 26 °C, with wind from 282° at 11 kt, a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 9 kt head-wind component.
After liftoff the aircraft began its climb overhead Paray-Vieille-Poste, rising from 1,291 ft asl to 29,046 ft asl - an altitude gain of 27,756 ft - in 13 minutes while covering 77 nm.
The first cruise segment started 2 nm south of Clemont and continued for 58 minutes, during which the airplane flew 391 nm at level altitude.
Descent commenced 29 nm south-east of Vilassar de Mar, with the aircraft descending from 30,000 ft asl to 2,785 ft asl - a loss of 27,215 ft - in 18 minutes and covering 99 nm.
A brief cruise followed, beginning 3 nm east of Manacor and lasting 3 minutes for a distance of 14 nm.
The next descent began 1 nm north of Lloret de Vistalegre, dropping from 2,751 ft asl to 1,279 ft asl - a decrease of 1,471 ft - in 2 minutes and covering 8 nm.
For the final approach the aircraft aligned with runway 24L at LEPA Palma de Mallorca, approaching from the north-east on a heading of 233.0° at 4 nm and 1,251 ft agl.
Landing was executed on runway 24L, which is 2,989 m long. The threshold speed was 140 kt; touchdown occurred 64 m beyond the touchdown zone at 134 kt with a vertical speed of minus 230 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 5.1 m from the centreline. Local conditions were 29 °C, wind from 250° at 15 kt, a 3 kt cross-wind and a 14 kt head-wind. Total landing distance measured 1,680 m, representing 56 % of the runway.
Rollout alignment was reported as very good, and the aircraft completed the runway exit without incident.
In total the flight covered 595 nm, required 99 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 3,854 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 24L at LEPA Palma de Mallorca Airport was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate, with a sink rate too high, off the glideslope and more than 20 kt above VREF. The aircraft descended from 2,268 ft agl to 287 ft agl in 73 seconds, and the stabilisation gates reflected the same deficiencies.
At the threshold the height of 195 ft agl was excessively over target and the threshold speed of 159 kt was well above target. These figures indicate that the aircraft entered the flare phase with excess altitude and speed.
Touchdown occurred 125 m beyond the touchdown zone, with a speed of 162 kt that was too fast and a very heavy touchdown rate of minus 1,721 fpm. The touchdown point was excessively misaligned by 35.1 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 2,443 m, representing 82 % of the 2,989 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment was excessively misaligned by 200.8 m from the centreline.
Improving the approach to achieve a stabilised profile by the 1,000 ft gate will reduce excess speed and sink rate, helping to meet target altitude and glideslope. Managing descent rate and speed through the flare will lessen the heavy touchdown and improve centreline alignment for a more efficient rollout.
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