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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final so threshold speed settles at 135 kt instead of carrying it into the flare.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 148 kt, well above the 135 kt target speed, and that excess speed was still showing at touchdown. Crossing the threshold fast usually carries straight through to a fast touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 135 kt on short final.
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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Taxi out
The roll
A slow rotation
The nose came up at 155 kt against the 150 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.5° a second, slower than the 2.1 to 2.9 other Airbus A320ceo pilots fly.
The rotation started on speed but the nose came up slowly. Make it one positive, continuous pull at the normal rate for this aircraft, rather than easing the nose up in steps.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 10,732 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 7 ft at the widest, and lifted off 5 ft left. Airborne 48 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 895 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,301 ft of runway left; gear up at 70 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,200 fpm on average to 895 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 2.1 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A320ceo pilots over the last 180 days (230 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 11.7°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
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 0.7 nm, then not again: fast from 0.7 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 70 ft below the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 40 ft 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +15 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,104 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 35 ft, 15 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 24 ft. Touched down 1,031 ft in, close to the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,104 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 660 fpm at the flare to 210 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° on the way down. Into the flare at 148 kt, 13 kt over the 135 kt approach speed, and 142 kt at touchdown.
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 5,104 ft of the 11,795 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5 ft right of the centreline, and stayed within 8 ft of it down the rollout. 5 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 142 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 300° at 8 kt · 6 kt head · 5 kt across
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. 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 1,031 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 140 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 44 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 22L at Liège Airport in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 22L the aircraft used 5,127 ft, representing 48 % of the runway, and lifted off at 166 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 71 °F, wind 6 kt at 270 °, with a crosswind component of 4 kt and a headwind component of 4 kt.
Climb commenced 1 mile west of Mons-lez-Liège, ascending from 1,573 ft asl to 35,011 ft asl, a gain of 33,438 ft achieved in 20 minutes while covering 142 nm.
Level cruise began overhead Kiedrich, Germany, and continued for 28 minutes, during which 250 nm were flown.
Descent started 1 mile south of Netolice, Czech Republic, descending from 34,526 ft asl to 4,135 ft asl, a loss of 30,391 ft in 23 minutes over a distance of 149 nm.
A second level cruise segment initiated 2 miles south-east of Rust, Austria, lasting 3 minutes and covering 10 nm.
The next descent began 2 miles north of Donnerskirchen, Austria, dropping from 3,816 ft asl to 1,830 ft asl, a decrease of 1,986 ft in 2 minutes across 6 nm.
Final approach to runway 34 at Vienna International Airport was conducted from the south, on a heading of 344.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,231 ft agl.
Touchdown occurred on runway 34, whose length is 11,795 ft; the threshold speed was 148 kt, touchdown speed was 142 kt, and touchdown distance measured 1,026 ft. Threshold height was reported as good, and runway touchdown alignment was reported as very good. The aircraft impacted the runway with a firm rate of minus 343 fpm. Local weather at the time was 75 °F, wind 8 kt at 300 °, crosswind 6 kt, headwind 6 kt.
The total landing distance was 4,840 ft, representing 41 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was reported as perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 4 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 564 nm in 88 minutes and consumed 7,624 lbs of fuel.
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