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Lower the nose and add power to accelerate back to climb speed.
What happened: Climb speed was slower than the target during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against climb speed target.
Arrival
Adjust power to bring the approach speed onto 126 kt and hold it through the gates.
What happened: The approach speed deviated from the target through the stabilisation gates. This kind of deviation usually carries through to an unstable threshold crossing.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed 35 kt FAST on the reference speed of 126 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 3,092 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 351 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A319 taxied from the parking area to runway 32 at EDXW Westerland Sylt Airport. The taxi-out required 34 minutes and covered 6 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 32, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 134 kt. The takeoff distance was 701 m, representing 33 % of the runway. Local weather reported temperature 17 °C, wind 19 kt from 300°, giving a headwind component of 17 kt and a cross-wind component of 8 kt.
En-route climb commenced overhead EDXW, climbing from 994 ft asl to 18 930 ft asl, an increase of 17 936 ft in 6 minutes while covering 25 nm.
The aircraft entered level cruise one mile north-west of Utersum, maintaining altitude for 3 minutes and covering 25 nm.
A descent began one mile north of Simonsberg, descending from 19 006 ft asl to 3 024 ft asl, a loss of 15 982 ft in 11 minutes over 61 nm.
A subsequent level cruise started one mile south of Leezen, lasting 2 minutes and covering 7 nm.
The next descent started one mile north-east of Jersbek, dropping from 3 011 ft asl to 1 364 ft asl, a decrease of 1 647 ft in 2 minutes across 7 nm.
Final approach to runway 23 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport was established from the north-east, on a heading of 230.0° at 4 nm and 1 304 ft agl.
Landing on runway 23, whose length is 3 092 m, the aircraft achieved a threshold speed of 126 kt; the threshold height was reported as good. Touchdown occurred at 353 m down the runway with a speed of 117 kt, a touchdown rate of minus 310 fpm, and a lateral deviation of 3.9 m from the centreline; the touchdown distance was described as good. Total landing distance was 1 203 m, representing 39 % of the runway. Local weather at the time was temperature 16 °C, wind 9 kt from 300°, with a cross-wind component of 9 kt and a headwind component of 3 kt.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
After rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 6 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 138 nm, took 39 minutes, and used -444 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A319 approached runway 23 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport from the north-east on a heading of 230.0° at 4 nm and 1,304 ft agl. The final approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
Threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 126 kt. The aircraft continued the flare and prepared for touchdown in accordance with the indicated parameters.
Touchdown occurred 353 m down the runway, with a touchdown speed of 117 kt described as a little fast. The touchdown rate was firm at minus 310 fpm and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.9 m from the centreline.
Total landing distance was 1,203 m, representing 39 % of the 3,092 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather was 16 °C with wind 9 kt from 300°, giving a 9 kt crosswind component and a 3 kt headwind component.
Refine speed control to reduce the touchdown speed closer to the target threshold speed, and adjust lateral aim to bring the touchdown point within a tighter tolerance of the centreline. These minor adjustments will help convert the already high score of 98.1% into an even more precise landing.
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