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Arrival
Continue arresting the sink throughout the flare so it does not return before the mains touch.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink to 2.8 ft, then 273 fpm returned before the mains touched, giving a touchdown rate of 275 fpm. Sink that returns after an early arrest usually produces a firmer touchdown than the flare alone would suggest.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 275 fpm next time
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 133 kt, 10 kt below the 143 kt target, and lifted off at 144 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 averaged 186 kt, 22 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 804 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,045 m of runway left; gear up at 240 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,130 fpm on average to 804 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 2,498 m runway.
Rolled from 104 m in, drifted 2.5 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 12 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 43 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to the threshold.
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 140 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 6 m off the centreline.
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.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 131 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 tracked the target profile exactly. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 643 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 13° left of the track, 3° of bank.
Wind 049° at 4 kt · 3 kt head · 2 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 116 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 43 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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 2,263 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 49 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 643 m in, 338 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 2,263 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.
The sink went from 410 fpm at the flare to 40 fpm at 3 ft, then back up to 280 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° 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 2,263 m of the 4,065 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.1 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 3 m left by the end of the rollout.
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 643 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 runway 32 at LDRI Rijeka Airport in 4 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 32 with a take-off distance of 1,093 m (44 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 133 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 14 °C, wind 19 kt from 079°, giving a crosswind component of 17 kt and a tailwind component of 8 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 20 seconds, averaging 2,031 fpm and reaching 196 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,153 ft asl to 34,010 ft asl in 14 minutes, covering 87 nm, beginning 1 mile north of Omisalj. Cruise at 34,000 ft asl was held for 12 minutes, covering 82 nm, starting 2 miles north-west of Podljubelj. Descent from 34,001 ft asl to 2,907 ft asl lasted 18 minutes, covering 94 nm, beginning 2 miles north of Scheffau am Tennengebirge, with a brief level-off at 4,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 08R at EDDM Munich Airport began with a descent from 1,487 ft agl to 79 ft agl in 113 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 2,092 ft agl at 199 kt, and final flap position 5 at 1,561 ft agl at 152 kt.
Landing on runway 08R (runway length 4,065 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 130 kt. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 220 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 116 kt, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 275 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 9.1 m from the centreline. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 2,177 m (54 % of runway) and the rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The total flight covered 271 nm in 53 minutes and used 1,986 kg of fuel.
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