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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 132 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 139 kt, 7 kt above the 132 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 132 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
Read more in VRef ExplainedStart to finish · 23 stages, 18 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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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 1,549 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,549 m of the 2,604 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 419 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 18 at EDDF Frankfurt Airport in 17 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 18, the aircraft accelerated to a rotation speed of 160 kt and lifted off after a take-off run of 1,984 m, which represented 50 % of the runway length; ambient temperature was 16 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 210°, a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 5 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced 2 mi west of Moerfelden-Walldorf, where the airplane rose from 1,374 ft asl to 33,669 ft asl, gaining 32,295 ft in 17 minutes while traversing 101 nm.
The first cruise segment began 2 mi east of Huerth and lasted 36 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 242 nm at level flight.
Descent 1 started 1 mi west of Canewdon, with a reduction from 34,220 ft asl to 7,451 ft asl, a loss of 26,769 ft in 19 minutes over 111 nm.
A brief cruise over Earlswood lasted 3 minutes and added 11 nm to the flight path.
Descent 2 was initiated 2 mi north-west of Stoke Prior, descending from 7,250 ft asl to 3,907 ft asl, a decrease of 3,343 ft in 5 minutes while covering 19 nm.
The next cruise segment, north-west of Wellesbourne, persisted for 5 minutes and spanned 18 nm.
Descent 3 began 1 mi east of EGKV Preston Capes Airfield Daventry, dropping from 3,912 ft asl to 2,309 ft asl, a loss of 1,603 ft in 3 minutes across 11 nm.
A further cruise over Long Itchington lasted 4 minutes and added 13 nm.
The first final approach to runway 33 at EGBB Birmingham International Airport reduced altitude from 1,325 ft agl to 43 ft agl in 101 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
A go-around was executed on runway 33 at EGBB when the aircraft reached 29 ft agl, prompting a climb back to circuit altitude.
A second final approach to the same runway brought the aircraft from 1,328 ft agl to 44 ft agl in 102 seconds, again achieving a stabilisation-gate score.
Landing on runway 33, whose length is 2,604 m, was completed with a threshold speed of 139 kt, a touchdown distance of 418 m, a touchdown speed of 131 kt, and a touchdown rate of minus 49 fpm; runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and local weather reported a temperature of 9 °C, wind 4 kt from 240°, a 4 kt cross-wind and no head-wind. The total landing roll measured 1,465 m, representing 56 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment remained perfect throughout the deceleration phase.
Taxi-in from the runway to the parking stand required 7 minutes and covered 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 597 nm, lasted 137 minutes, and consumed 4,859 kg of fuel.
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