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Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: off the centreline.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 11,537 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,360 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 11 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, an Airbus A319, then departed from runway 22L at KORD Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The takeoff distance was 5,175 feet, which accounted for 64% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 152 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 79°F and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 230°.
As the aircraft climbed to its cruising altitude, it started its enroute climb 1 mile south east of Bensenville, Illinois. The climb took 18 minutes and covered a distance of 105 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 1,678 feet above sea level to 35,797 feet above sea level, an increase of 34,120 feet. The enroute level cruise then began overhead Camanche, Iowa, and lasted for 336 minutes, covering a distance of 1,369 nautical miles.
The enroute descent started 5 miles north west of Yosemite Valley, California, and took 25 minutes to complete, covering a distance of 126 nautical miles. The aircraft descended from an altitude of 35,715 feet above sea level to 670 feet above sea level, a decrease of 35,045 feet. The final approach to runway 28R at KSFO San Francisco International Airport was made from the south east, with the aircraft heading 296.0° at an altitude of 650 feet above ground level and a distance of 2 nautical miles from the runway.
The landing on runway 28R was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 116 knots and a touchdown distance of 1,365 feet. The touchdown rate was slightly hard at -478 feet per minute, but the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 64°F and a wind speed of 10 knots from a direction of 300°.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, which took 2 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,608 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 258 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 21,090 pounds of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A319 successfully landed at San Francisco International Airport (KSFO) on runway 28R, achieving a score of 95.6%. The aircraft approached the runway from the southeast, heading 296.0° at 2 nautical miles and 650 feet above ground level (agl). The final approach was executed with precision, and the aircraft touched down on the runway with a speed of 116 knots, which was within the target range.
The threshold height at 55 feet agl was slightly above the target, but the threshold speed of 126 knots was good. The touchdown distance of 1,365 feet was also within the acceptable range. The touchdown rate, however, was hard at -478 feet per minute (fpm), which may indicate a slightly aggressive descent. Despite this, the runway touchdown alignment was very good, indicating that the aircraft was properly aligned with the runway.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were favorable, with a temperature of 64°F and a wind speed of 10 knots from 300°. The crosswind component was negligible, but the headwind component was 9 knots, which may have contributed to the hard touchdown rate. The total landing distance of 3,960 feet was 34% of the runway length, which is within the acceptable range.
The runway rollout alignment was perfect, indicating that the aircraft was properly aligned with the runway after touchdown and was able to maintain a stable and controlled roll-out. Overall, the landing was successful, and the aircraft was able to touch down safely on the runway. However, the hard touchdown rate may indicate a need for further refinement in the approach and landing technique.
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