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Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 170 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 131 kt against a target of 170 kt, running 39 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 170 kt.
Arrival
Stop the rotation once the sink is arrested at 0.1 ft, holding the normal landing attitude instead of continuing to pull back.
What happened: The flare pitch reached 1.9°, well above this type's ground attitude, and touchdown followed at a sink rate of 282 fpm. Over-rotating the flare like this usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold the normal landing attitude once sink is arrested at 0.1 ft.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,856 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 243 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from SBCT Afonso Pena Airport, the Airbus A320 began its journey with a taxiing phase that lasted 9 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. As the aircraft reached the runway, it initiated its departure roll on runway 15, utilizing 1,498 meters, or 68% of the available runway length, to achieve liftoff at a speed of 133 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 21°C, with a wind speed of 14 knots from a direction of 309°, resulting in a tailwind component of 14 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb phase, which started approximately 1 mile southeast of the departure airport. The climb phase saw the aircraft ascend from an initial altitude of 4,012 feet above sea level to a cruising altitude of 26,992 feet, a vertical increase of 22,980 feet, in just 12 minutes and covering a distance of 69 nautical miles. Following a 9-minute level cruise phase, during which the aircraft covered 64 nautical miles, the enroute descent phase commenced 29 miles south of Peruibe, Brazil. The descent phase saw the aircraft decrease its altitude from 27,008 feet to 3,960 feet, a vertical decrease of 23,048 feet, in 17 minutes and covering a distance of 78 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached SBSP Congonhas Airport, it initiated its final approach to runway 35L from the southeast, aligning itself with the runway at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,342 feet above ground level. The landing phase saw the aircraft touch down on the runway at a speed of 128 knots, slightly above the recommended threshold speed of 134 knots. The touchdown distance of 245 meters was within acceptable limits, and the aircraft's touchdown rate of -340 feet per minute was firm. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 5.1 meters. Following a taxiing phase that lasted 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile, the aircraft came to a stop, having completed a total flight distance of 220 nautical miles and utilizing 2,039 kilograms of fuel.
The final approach to runway 35L at SBSP Congonhas Airport from the south east was executed with good quality, with the aircraft maintaining a steady heading of 328.0° at 4 nm and 1,342 ft above ground level. The approach was conducted in a 7 kt headwind and a 4 kt crosswind, with the wind direction at 270°. The temperature was 20°C, providing optimal conditions for the landing.
As the aircraft touched down on the runway, the threshold speed was good at 134 kt, meeting the required standards. However, the touchdown speed of 128 kt was a little fast, resulting in a firm touchdown rate of -340 fpm. The touchdown distance of 245 m was within the acceptable range, and the aircraft landed on the runway with good threshold height. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.1 m from the centreline, which was a minor deviation from the ideal alignment.
The aircraft's rollout was slightly misaligned by 8.3 m from the centreline, but the total landing distance of 897 m was only 51% of the runway length, indicating a good braking performance. Overall, the landing was executed with a high level of proficiency, scoring 96.3% and demonstrating the pilot's ability to manage the aircraft's descent and touchdown with precision.
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