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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to cross the threshold at 132 kt instead of carrying excess speed.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 180 kt, 48 kt above 132 kt, and the flare's sink was arrested before 1,994 fpm of it came back. Excess speed carrying into a flare that lets sink return like this usually rolls the touchdown point long, and here it landed 508 m beyond 457 m.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 132 kt at the threshold
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 · 22 stages, 17 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 146 kt, on the 147 kt target, and lifted off at 159 kt 3.2 s later, the nose coming up at 2.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 184 kt, 20 kt over its 164 kt target.
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 986 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,154 m of runway left; gear up at 231 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,660 fpm on average to 986 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 3,589 m runway.
Rolled from 145 m in, drifted 6.2 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 34 % 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 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 33 kt above the approach speed of 132 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 132 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way and left of the centreline until 3.1 nm.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 150 ft above the slope.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 271 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.1 nm to the threshold.
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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +55 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
The flare strayed well off the target profile. Crossing the threshold 48 kt above target, the flare ballooned 26 ft agl back up from 12 ft agl above the runway, 695 m in. Touchdown was 965 m past the threshold. Hold the attitude and let it settle rather than pushing - that excess speed is what turns a normal flare into a balloon, so the fix is on the approach, not in the flare.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 163 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 260° at 12 kt · 11 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 148 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.59 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 73 ft, 23 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft; ballooned 26 ft from 12 ft. Touched down 965 m in, 660 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 770 fpm before coming down at 1,190 fpm to touch. The nose went down 2.8° 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 2,168 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 39 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 23 m right at the widest.
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.
Touched down 965 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 2.47 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 19R at ENGM Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, a movement that lasted 11 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 19R with a take-off roll of 1,225 m (34 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 146 kt. Local weather at departure was 12 °C, wind 16 kt from 210° (cross-wind 4 kt, head-wind 15 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 20 seconds, averaging 2,334 fpm and reaching 190 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,722 ft asl to 37,171 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 131 nm, with a brief level-off at 6,800 ft asl.
Cruise level was 37,400 ft asl for 43 minutes, covering 309 nm, beginning 8 mi south of Hovden.
Descent from 37,656 ft asl to 30,604 ft asl took 3 minutes over 23 nm, starting 72 mi east of Beadnell. A subsequent level segment at 29,900 ft asl lasted 14 minutes and covered 109 nm, beginning 57 mi east of Amble.
A further descent from 29,882 ft asl to 1,479 ft asl was completed in 19 minutes over 91 nm, beginning 1 mi west of Tadcaster.
**First approach - runway 25, EGNT Newcastle Airport**
Descent from 1,302 ft agl to 91 ft agl took 116 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level; sink-rate was not met at one gate. Configuration was landing gear down at 1,627 ft agl, 149 kt; final flap position 5 at 1,329 ft agl, 149 kt.
A go-around was executed on runway 25 at 11 ft agl.
**Second approach - runway 25, EGNT Newcastle Airport**
Descent from 1,399 ft agl to 74 ft agl took 86 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft were met for gear down, landing flap, sink-rate, glideslope and wings level; centreline and speed were not met at one gate. Configuration remained gear down at 1,627 ft agl, 149 kt; final flap 5 at 1,329 ft agl, 149 kt.
Landing was made on runway 25, whose length is 2,168 m. The threshold height at 73 ft agl was well above target and the threshold speed was 180 kt. The flare was very poor; the aircraft ballooned in the flare. Touchdown occurred 553 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 163 kt, with a very heavy vertical rate of minus 1,194 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 38.6 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,291 m (60 % of the runway). Runway rollout was misaligned by 40.8 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 12 °C, wind 14 kt from 260° (cross-wind 4 kt, head-wind 14 kt).
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 704 nm in 128 minutes and consumed 4,656 kg of fuel.
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