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Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,658 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,658 m of the 3,312 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 483 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in question was operated by an Airbus A321 aircraft. The aircraft began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 29 minutes and covered a distance of 5 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 31R at Cologne Bonn Airport (EDDK), with a takeoff distance of 1,113 meters, which accounted for 29% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 156 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to its cruising altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of 22°C temperature and winds of 9 knots at 20°. The crosswind was 8 knots, while the headwind was 4 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile east of Eil, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, and reached an altitude of 31,956 feet above sea level, an increase of 30,721 feet in 20 minutes, covering a distance of 109 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, starting overhead Gaiberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, and lasting 11 minutes, covering 83 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb phase, this time from 32,385 feet to 33,962 feet above sea level, an increase of 1,577 feet in 2 minutes, covering 13 nautical miles. The level cruise phase that followed started 1 mile north-west of Bergatreute, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, and lasted 3 minutes, covering 26 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its descent, starting 4 miles west of Ofterschwang, Bavaria, Germany, and descending from 34,310 feet to 29,804 feet above sea level, a decrease of 4,506 feet in 3 minutes, covering 27 nautical miles. The level cruise phase that followed started 1 mile north-east of See, Tirol, Austria, and lasted 2 minutes, covering 13 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began another descent phase, starting 4 miles east of Nauders, Tirol, Austria, and descending from 29,403 feet to 17,306 feet above sea level, a decrease of 12,097 feet in 7 minutes, covering 55 nautical miles. The level cruise phase that followed started overhead Dro, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, and lasted 2 minutes, covering 11 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began another descent phase, starting 2 miles north-west of Ala, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, and descending from 16,945 feet to 11,650 feet above sea level, a decrease of 5,296 feet in 2 minutes, covering 11 nautical miles. The level cruise phase that followed started 2 miles north of Crespadoro, Veneto, Italy, and lasted 2 minutes, covering 11 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began another descent phase, starting 1 mile north of Sovizzo, Veneto, Italy, and descending from 11,073 feet to 5,069 feet above sea level, a decrease of 6,004 feet in 5 minutes, covering 25 nautical miles. The level cruise phase that followed started overhead Polverara, Veneto, Italy, and lasted 2 minutes, covering 6 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its final descent phase, starting overhead Codevigo, Veneto, Italy, and descending from 5,211 feet to 1,292 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,919 feet in 4 minutes, covering 13 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 04R at Venice Marco Polo Airport (LIPZ), flying from the south-west at a heading of 41.
The Airbus A321 successfully landed at LIPZ Venice Marco Polo Airport, achieving a score of 90.8%. The aircraft approached the runway from the southwest, heading 41.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,278 feet above ground level (agl). The final approach was made to runway 04R, which has a length of 3,312 meters.
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down 72 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a speed of 127 knots, which was considered good. However, the touchdown rate was very hard, at -544 feet per minute (fpm), indicating a significant deceleration upon contact with the runway. Despite this, the runway touchdown alignment was very good, suggesting that the aircraft was properly aligned with the runway.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were favorable, with a temperature of 22°C and a wind speed of 7 knots from a direction of 220°. This resulted in a crosswind of 0 knots and a tailwind of 7 knots, which did not significantly impact the landing. The total landing distance was 1,582 meters, which is 48% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also very good, indicating that the aircraft maintained its alignment with the runway during the rollout phase.
Overall, the landing was successful, with the aircraft achieving a good touchdown speed and alignment. However, the hard touchdown rate may indicate a need for further refinement in the landing technique to achieve a smoother touchdown.
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