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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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,823 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,823 m of the 3,532 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 360 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport, the Airbus A320 taxied 1 nm in 6 minutes before rolling out on runway 33. The take-off run measured 1,131 m, representing 35 % of the available runway, and the aircraft achieved liftoff speed of 169 kt. With a temperature of 30 °C and a 15 kt wind from 310°, the crosswind component was 6 kt and the headwind 14 kt.
The climb commenced 1 mile southwest of Langenhorn, rising from 1,004 ft to 20,372 ft in 10 minutes over 57 nm. Level cruise began 3 miles east of Dahme, lasting 5 minutes and covering 39 nm. Descent started 6 miles north of Gedser, dropping from 20,987 ft to 1,360 ft in 15 minutes across 76 nm. The final approach to runway 04L at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport was from the southwest, heading 41.0° at 4 nm and 1,339 ft AGL.
Landing on runway 04L, the aircraft touched down after 368 m at 139 kt, with a touchdown rate of -392 fpm and perfect runway alignment. The threshold speed was 141 kt, and the total landing distance was 1,752 m, 49 % of the runway. After a 5-minute taxi of 1 nm back to the parking, the flight covered 180 nm, consuming 1,864 kg of fuel.
Final approach to runway 04L at EKCH Copenhagen Kastrup Airport was conducted from the south west, with the aircraft heading 41.0° at 4 nm and 1,339 ft agl. The touchdown occurred at 368 m from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 139 kt and a touchdown rate of minus 392 fpm. The runway alignment at touchdown was described as perfect, and the touchdown speed was noted as a little fast.
The aircraft landed on runway 04L, which measures 3,548 m in length. The total landing distance was 1,752 m, representing 49 % of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was described as very good. Local weather conditions were 25 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 190°, a crosswind of 4 kt and a tailwind of 6 kt. The threshold height and threshold speed were reported as good, with a threshold speed of 141 kt.
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