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Add power earlier on final to hold VREF of 149 kt by the gates rather than let speed decay.
What happened: The approach was flown too slow through the stabilisation gates, crossing the threshold at 141 kt against a VREF of 149 kt.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 149 kt from the first stabilisation gate onward.
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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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed 9 kt SLOW on the reference speed of 149 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,598 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,598 m of the 3,692 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 495 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 28R at ULLI Pulkovo Airport; the taxi-out required 8 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 28R, the takeoff run measured 1,656 m, representing 49 % of the runway length, and the aircraft lifted off at 168 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead ULLI Pulkovo Airport, with the airplane ascending from 1,102 ft asl to 30,772 ft asl, a gain of 29,670 ft achieved in 17 minutes while covering 105 nm.
The first cruise segment began 7 mi south-east of Budogoshch’ (Leningrad Oblast, Russia) and continued for 18 minutes, during which 141 nm were flown.
Descent started 13 mi north-west of Rameshki (Tverskaya Oblast’, Russia), with the aircraft descending from 30,561 ft asl to 2,551 ft asl, a loss of 28,010 ft accomplished in 21 minutes over a distance of 116 nm.
A second cruise phase was initiated 3 mi west of Pushkino (Moscow Oblast, Russia); this brief segment lasted 3 minutes and spanned 8 nm.
Final approach to runway 24L at UUEE Sheremetyevo International Airport was conducted from the east, on a heading of 255.0°, at 4 nm and 1,229 ft agl.
Landing on runway 24L, whose total length is 3,692 m, occurred with a threshold height of 65 ft agl that was above target and a threshold speed of 142 kt, slightly below target. Touchdown was recorded 77 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 140 kt; the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 524 fpm, and runway-touchdown alignment was very good. Local weather at the time was 14 °C with a wind of 6 kt from 280°, a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 5 kt head-wind component. The total landing roll measured 1,515 m, representing 41 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good, completing the landing phase without deviation.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking stand in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 379 nm, lasted 71 (units as reported), and consumed 3,608 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 24L at UUEE was flown from the east on a heading of 255.0° at 4 nm and 1,229 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.
During the threshold and flare the aircraft passed the threshold height of 65 ft agl, which was above the target, and the threshold speed was slightly below target at 142 kt.
Touchdown occurred 77 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 140 kt that was judged good, but the touchdown rate was very hard at minus 524 fpm; runway touchdown alignment was very good.
Rollout alignment was very good and the total landing distance was 1,515 m, representing 41 % of the 3,692 m runway.
To refine the performance, attention should be given to achieving the correct flare height to bring the threshold height within target and to moderating the sink rate to avoid a hard touchdown. Maintaining the current speed and alignment will preserve the strong overall result reflected by the 89.6 % score.
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