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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 12 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
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. 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 3,710 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 261 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.82 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from João Paulo II Airport, the Airbus A321 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 6 minutes and covered 3 nautical miles. As it reached the runway threshold, the aircraft initiated its departure roll on runway 30, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 151 knots. The takeoff distance of 844 meters accounted for 38% of the runway length, with a local temperature of 21°C and wind conditions of 17 knots at 269 degrees, resulting in a 6-knot crosswind and a 16-knot headwind.
As the aircraft climbed to its initial cruising altitude, it passed overhead Relva, Azores, Portugal, and began its ascent to 35,011 feet above sea level, an increase of 33,995 feet in 27 minutes, covering 189 nautical miles. The enroute climb phase was followed by a level cruise, which lasted 64 minutes and covered 502 nautical miles, with the aircraft maintaining a steady altitude of 35,011 feet. The cruise phase was punctuated by a series of descents and level cruises, with the aircraft descending from 34,681 feet to 8,007 feet in 18 minutes, covering 116 nautical miles, and then leveling off 13 miles south of Cascais, Portugal, for a brief 5-minute period. The final descent phase began 4 miles southwest of Sesimbra, Portugal, and resulted in a landing on runway 02 at Lisbon Portela Airport.
The landing was executed with a threshold height above target and a threshold speed slightly above target at 147 knots. The touchdown distance of 267 meters was within acceptable limits, but the touchdown speed of 143 knots was a little fast, and the touchdown rate was very heavy at -798 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, but the runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 19.4 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance of 1,285 meters accounted for 41% of the runway length. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 3 minutes and covered 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 859 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 134 minutes and a fuel consumption of 6,390 kilograms.
The aircraft touched down on runway 02 at LPPT Humberto Delgado Airport (Lisbon Portela Airport) with a threshold height of 61 ft agl, exceeding the target height. The approach quality was satisfactory, considering the challenging wind conditions of 30 kt at 340°. The threshold speed of 147 kt was slightly above the target, which may have contributed to the slightly fast touchdown speed of 143 kt.
The touchdown characteristics were notable, with a touchdown distance of 267 m, which was within acceptable limits. However, the touchdown rate of -798 fpm was very heavy, indicating a high deceleration force upon touchdown. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, with the aircraft centered on the runway. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 19 °C and wind of 30 kt at 340°, presented a challenging crosswind component of 20 kt and a headwind component of 22 kt.
The rollout phase was marred by a slight misalignment of 19.4 m from the centreline, which may have been a result of the challenging wind conditions. The total landing distance of 1,285 m was 41% of the runway length, indicating a relatively short landing distance. Overall, the landing performance scored 85.3%, reflecting a good but not exceptional performance, considering the challenging wind conditions.
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