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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 31 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
After the sink arrests at 24 ft, keep easing the yoke forward to let the aircraft continue settling rather than pausing above the runway.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 24 ft and the aircraft was held level there instead of being let down. Holding off high like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown, and here the touchdown rate was 497 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, continuing descent through the flare all the way to touchdown.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 9,559 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,967 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, an Airbus A320, then departed from runway 36L at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (LEMD). The takeoff distance was 5,896 feet, which accounted for 53% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 163 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 82°F and a wind speed of 3 knots at 49°. The crosswind was 2 knots, and the headwind was also 2 knots. As the aircraft climbed, it started to ascend from 2,987 feet above sea level to 30,107 feet above sea level, an increase of 27,121 feet in 15 minutes, covering a distance of 86 nautical miles.
The enroute climb phase was followed by a level cruise, which began 4 miles southeast of Jaraba in the Aragon region of Spain. This phase lasted 11 minutes and covered a distance of 81 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its descent from 30,207 feet above sea level to 4,356 feet above sea level, a decrease of 25,851 feet in 20 minutes, covering a distance of 99 nautical miles.
The enroute descent phase was followed by another level cruise, which started 17 miles south of Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (LEBL) in the Catalonia region of Spain. This phase lasted 8 minutes and covered a distance of 22 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent from 3,409 feet above sea level to 1,294 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,115 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 24R at LEBL was made from the northeast, heading 246.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,275 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 24R, which had a length of 9,559 feet. The threshold height was above the target, and the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 143 knots.
The touchdown point was 599 feet beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 132 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was hard at -454 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 17 feet from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 68°F and a wind speed of 6 knots at 200°. The crosswind was 4 knots, and the headwind was also 4 knots.
The total landing distance was 4,227 feet, which accounted for 44% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 53 feet from the centerline. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 3 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 303 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 70 minutes. The aircraft used 6,950 pounds of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A320 aircraft successfully landed on runway 24R at LEBL Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, but with some notable deviations from the ideal landing parameters. The final approach was initiated from the north east, heading 246.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,275 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft touched down on the runway, but the touchdown point was 599 feet beyond the designated touchdown zone, indicating a slight overextension of the landing.
The touchdown speed of 132 knots was slightly above the target speed, which could have contributed to the hard touchdown rate of -454 feet per minute (fpm). The runway touchdown position was also slightly misaligned by 17 feet from the centreline, which may have been due to the pilot's inability to perfectly align the aircraft with the runway during the final approach.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were relatively calm, with a temperature of 68°F and a wind speed of 6 knots from 200°. The crosswind and headwind components were both 4 knots, which is relatively minimal and should not have significantly impacted the landing. The runway length of 9,559 feet was more than sufficient to accommodate the aircraft's landing distance of 4,227 feet, which accounted for 44% of the runway.
During the rollout, the aircraft's alignment with the centreline was again slightly off, this time by 53 feet. This may have been due to the pilot's difficulty in maintaining a stable and aligned path during the rollout phase. Overall, while the landing was successful, there were several areas for improvement, including the touchdown speed, touchdown rate, and runway alignment.
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