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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 4.6 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 2,377 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,377 m of the 3,996 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 265 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft flew as an Airbus A320. Initially, taxiing from the parking to the runway took approximately 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles (nm).
Taking off from runway 17R at SCEL Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, the aircraft reached a liftoff speed of 163 knots. Local weather conditions at the time of departure included a temperature of 11 °C, a 6-knot wind at 162 °, resulting in a crosswind of 1 kt and a headwind of 5 kt.
As the flight continued, enroute climb started overhead SCEL airport, with the aircraft climbing from 2,554 feet above sea level (asl) to 35,558 ft asl, an increase of 33,004 ft in 19 minutes and covering 92 nm.
After reaching cruising altitude, enroute level cruise started overhead SCNK Los Pelambres Airport Cuncumen in Region de Coquimbo, Chile. This phase of the flight lasted 124 minutes, covering a distance of 870 nm.
Later in the flight, enroute descent started 23 miles north of Curahuara de Carangas in Bolivia. The descent took 11 minutes, reducing the altitude from 36,886 ft asl to 14,157 ft asl, a decrease of 22,728 ft, and covered a distance of 59 nm.
As the flight headed towards its destination, a final approach was conducted to runway 10 at SLLP El Alto International Airport from the west, with a heading of 92.0 ° at 4 nm and 932 feet above ground level (agl).
Upon landing on runway 10 at SLLP El Alto International Airport, with a runway length of 3,996 meters, the aircraft demonstrated a good threshold height and threshold speed of 133 knots. However, touchdown speed at 136 knots was slightly above the recommended speed, and the touchdown rate was high at -701 fpm.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.2 meters from the centreline, while the local weather conditions at the time of landing included a temperature of 13 °C, a 20-knot wind at 300 °, resulting in a crosswind of 10 kt and a tailwind of 18 kt.
Taxiing to the parking from the runway took approximately 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. In total, the flight covered a distance of 1,031 nm, utilized 6,439 kg of fuel, and took 168 minutes to complete.
The Airbus A320 aircraft successfully landed at SLLP El Alto International Airport, achieving a score of 91.0%. The final approach to runway 10 was conducted from the west, heading at 92.0 degrees at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 932 feet above ground level (agl).
Upon landing, the aircraft had a good threshold height, and the threshold speed of 133 knots was satisfactory. The touchdown distance of 268 meters was also well within the expected parameters. However, the touchdown speed of 136 knots was slightly above the desired speed, indicating that the aircraft may have been slightly heavy on the landing. A heavy touchdown rate of -701 feet per minute was observed, which could be a concern for the aircraft's structure and safety.
The landing rollout was not perfect, as the aircraft was slightly misaligned with the centerline by 3.2 meters at touchdown, and this discrepancy increased to 10.4 meters by the end of the rollout. This indicates that the aircraft may have had some difficulty in aligning with the runway centerline during the roll-out phase.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing consisted of a temperature of 13 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 20 knots blowing at 300 degrees. As a result, the aircraft experienced a 10-knot crosswind and an 18-knot tailwind, which may have contributed to some of the issues experienced during the landing. The total landing distance was 2,480 meters, accounting for 62 percent of the available runway length of 3,996 meters.
Overall, while the Airbus A320 aircraft's landing was not perfect, it was a successful operation, and the 91.0% score indicates that a significant level of proficiency was demonstrated by the pilots. Nonetheless, attention should be paid to the issues identified during the landing, such as the high touchdown speed and the heavy touchdown rate, in order to ensure that subsequent landings are executed more efficiently and safely.
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