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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 481 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Begin raising the nose earlier, by 11 ft, so the flare has time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 4 ft, 7.2 ft below the normal band, and a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and start the flare in the normal band, around 11 ft.
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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,348 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 7 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.71 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A330-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 20 at RPLC Clark International Airport, covering 3 nm in 12 minutes.
During the departure roll on runway 20, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 176 kt and left the ground after a takeoff distance of 1,852 m 58 % of runway. Local weather at the time was 28 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 179°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 3 kt.
Climb commenced overhead Santol, rising from 1,398 ft asl to 34,980 ft asl, an increase of 33,583 ft achieved in 24 minutes while covering 163 nm.
The first cruise segment began 5 miles south-east of Pidigan and continued for 47 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 376 nm at level altitude.
Descent phase one started 14 miles north-west of RCKU Chiayi Airport, descending from 35,002 ft asl to 19,000 ft asl, a loss of 16,001 ft in 10 minutes and covering 77 nm.
A brief cruise followed 8 miles west of RCPO Hsinchu Air Base, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 10 nm.
Descent phase two began 10 miles north of RCPO Hsinchu Air Base, dropping from 18,991 ft asl to 1,334 ft asl, a decrease of 17,657 ft in 12 minutes while traveling 54 nm.
The final approach to runway 23L at RCTP Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport was executed from the north-east, on a heading of 229.0° at 4 nm and 1,244 ft agl.
Landing on runway 23L, which is 3,348 m long, was performed with a threshold speed of 140 kt. Touchdown occurred 8 m beyond the threshold at a speed of 140 kt, a touchdown rate of minus 696 fpm, and a lateral deviation of 3.5 m from the centreline. Weather at the airport was 33 °C with a wind of 9 kt from 340°, a cross-wind component of 8 kt and a tail-wind component of 3 kt. The total landing distance recorded was 1,328 m 40 % of runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 690 nm, lasted 110 minutes, and consumed 10,384 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A330-900 entered the final approach to runway 23L at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport from the north-east on a heading of 229.0° at 4 nm and 1,244 ft AGL. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits, and the local weather was 33 °C with wind 9 kt from 340°, including an 8 kt crosswind and a 3 kt tailwind.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold speed of 140 kt and the touchdown distance was good at 8 m. The touchdown speed of 140 kt was noted as a little fast, and the touchdown rate was heavy at minus 696 fpm, with the runway touchdown position slightly misaligned by 3.5 m from the centreline.
The landing covered a total distance of 1,328 m, representing 40 % of the 3,348 m runway length, and the overall touchdown performance reflected the speed and rate characteristics previously described.
Runway rollout alignment was very good, with the aircraft remaining on the centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
For future landings, reducing the flare height to moderate the descent rate and fine-tuning the approach speed to be marginally below the threshold value will help lessen the heavy touchdown rate while preserving the good alignment achieved.
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