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Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 219 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 271 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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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: speed 37 kt FAST on the reference speed of 130 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,981 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 650 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to the departure runway, a movement that required 75 minutes and covered 8 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 24 at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, achieving a takeoff distance of 2,164 m (63 % of the runway) and rotating at 150 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 14 °C, wind 16 kt from 319°, a cross-wind component of 15 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
Climb began 1 mile north-west of Aalsmeerderbrug (Provincie Noord-Holland, The Netherlands), with the flight ascending from 980 ft asl to 26,862 ft asl, an increase of 25,883 ft achieved in 11 minutes while covering 70 nm.
The first cruise segment started 2 miles north-west of Kalkar (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) and continued for 25 minutes, during which 223 nm were flown.
Descent commenced 1 mile south of Schopfloch (Bavaria, Germany), with the aircraft descending from 26,951 ft asl to 3,402 ft asl, a loss of 23,549 ft in 14 minutes over a distance of 84 nm.
A brief cruise followed, beginning 1 mile north-east of Langenpreising (Bavaria, Germany), lasting 2 minutes and covering 7 nm.
Final approach to runway 26R at EDDM Munich Airport involved a descent from 1,374 ft agl to 79 ft agl in 96 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 26R (runway length 3,981 m) recorded a threshold speed of 134 kt. Touchdown occurred 227 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 121 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 272 fpm and a lateral deviation of 4.1 m from the centreline. Local weather at the time was 10 °C, wind 6 kt from 240°, cross-wind 2 kt and head-wind 6 kt.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,307 m, representing 33 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 399 nm, taking 63, and used 63 kg of fuel.
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