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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.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,135 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 275 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with aircraft taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KDEN Denver International Airport, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles in 9 minutes. The takeoff roll was conducted on runway 08, with the aircraft using 2,103 meters or 58% of the runway to reach a liftoff speed of 162 knots. At the time of takeoff, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 21°C, wind of 5 knots at 99 degrees, resulting in a headwind of 5 knots and a negligible crosswind of 1 knot.
Following takeoff, the aircraft entered an initial climb, where it ascended from 6,308 feet above sea level (asl) to 35,829 ft asl, covering a distance of 139 nautical miles and taking 12 minutes to complete this climb phase.
After completing the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase that lasted 8 minutes, covering a distance of 214 nautical miles, and occurred approximately 9 miles south of KIML Imperial Municipal Airport, Imperial, Nebraska, United States.
The aircraft then encountered a need to reascend, this time from 35,629 ft asl to 37,647 ft asl, taking just 2 minutes and covering a distance of 26 nautical miles, while climbing from a point 4 miles northwest of KLNK Lincoln Airport, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
The next level cruise phase lasted for 39 minutes, covering a distance of 871 nautical miles and took place approximately 3 miles southwest of Cedar Creek, Nebraska, United States.
Upon reaching the northeastern United States, the aircraft entered the initial descent phase from 37,981 ft asl to 4,039 ft asl over a distance of 130 nautical miles and took 13 minutes, while passing 1 mile east of New Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Following the initial descent phase, a level cruise phase occurred while the aircraft was flying overhead Chintatown, resulting in a duration of 5 minutes, covering 20 nautical miles.
Before final approach, descent phase 2 occurred while the aircraft was flying overhead Greenburgh, taking 5 minutes, covering 12 nautical miles, and descending 2,485 feet from 3,786 asl to 1,300 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 22 at KLGA LaGuardia Airport involved heading 212.0° from the north east, while traveling 4 nautical miles and 1,278 feet above ground level.
The landing was conducted on runway 22, which had a length of 2,135 meters. The aircraft landed with a speed slightly above the target, reaching 138 kt, although the touchdown speed at 135 kt was fast, touchdown rate at -468 feet per minute was hard, while runway touchdown position deviated 8.1 meters from the centreline. Local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 22°C, wind of 8 knots at 100 degrees, resulting in wind effects on the landing roll, a crosswind of 7 kt and tailwind of 3 kt.
Post landing, the runway rollout showed that it was misaligned by 8.0 meters from the centreline. The aircraft taxied to the parking area, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile in 3 minutes.
The total distance of the flight was 1,421 nautical miles and it used up 7,809 kg of fuel during the flight, completing the journey in 97 minutes.
The Airbus A320 has successfully landed at KLGA LaGuardia Airport, demonstrating a 94.7% success rate. The aircraft's final approach to runway 22 was from the north-east, heading 212.0°, at a height of 4 nm and 1,278 ft above ground level (agl). The landing was achieved with a good threshold height, signifying that the approaching aircraft was at the correct height with respect to the runway threshold.
However, the aircraft's threshold speed was slightly above the target speed of 137 kt. The touchdown speed, recorded at 135 kt, was a little fast; the optimal speed range for a safe and smooth touchdown is generally considered to be between 120 kt and 130 kt.
The touchdown distance of 275 m was deemed satisfactory, within the acceptable parameters for a safe landing. On the other hand, the touchdown rate was hard at -468 fpm. The ideal touchdown rate varies between 1.5 fpm to 2.0 fpm; any value above 2.0 fpm indicates a hard touchdown and raises potential concerns about the aircraft's structural integrity.
During the landing, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline, indicating a slight deviation from the ideal centreline alignment. The local weather conditions at the time of landing included a temperature of 22 °C, wind speed of 8 kt blowing at 100°, with a crosswind of 7 kt and a tailwind of 3 kt.
The total landing distance of 1,020 m was 48% of the available runway length, which is considered acceptable. Nevertheless, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 8.0 m, which may necessitate further attention to achieve better centreline tracking during braking.
The landing parameters indicate that while there were minor deviations from the optimal values, the Airbus A320 remained within safe parameters, and the pilot maintained control throughout the landing process. However, further analysis is required to identify areas of improvement and optimize the landing performance.
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