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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 7.6 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,195 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 240 m touchdown sits inside 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 7 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-900, then departed from runway 32 at LIEE Cagliari Elmas Airport. The takeoff distance was 1,565 meters, which accounted for 56% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 166 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 6 knots from a direction of 270 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 4 knots and a headwind of 4 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, which started overhead Elmas in Sardegna, Italy. The climb took 21 minutes and covered a distance of 95 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 1,008 feet above sea level to 35,878 feet above sea level, an increase of 34,869 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 13 minutes and covered a distance of 88 nautical miles. This phase began 38 miles southwest of Fertilia in Sardegna, Italy. The aircraft then started its enroute descent, which began 61 miles east of Es Castell in the Comunitat Autonoma de les Illes Balears, Spain. The descent took 35 minutes and covered a distance of 141 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 35,946 feet above sea level to 1,311 feet above sea level, a decrease of 34,635 feet.
The final approach to runway 06L at LEPA Palma de Mallorca Airport was made from the southwest, with a heading of 58.0 degrees at an altitude of 1,279 feet above ground level and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway. The landing was made on runway 06L, which had a length of 3,195 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was also satisfactory at 143 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 240 meters, but the touchdown speed was a little fast at 142 knots. The touchdown rate was very heavy at -798 feet per minute, but the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 10 knots from a direction of 69 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 10 knots. The total landing distance was 1,298 meters, which accounted for 41% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 2 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 332 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 79 minutes. The aircraft used 3,914 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Boeing 737-900 aircraft successfully landed at LEPA Palma de Mallorca Airport, achieving a score of 93.1%. The final approach to runway 06L was conducted from the southwest, with a heading of 58.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,279 feet above ground level.
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway with a speed of 143 kt, which was considered good. However, the touchdown speed of 142 kt was slightly faster than ideal. The touchdown distance of 240 meters was also deemed good. The most notable aspect of the landing was the heavy touchdown rate of -798 feet per minute, which may indicate a slightly hard landing.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were favorable, with a temperature of 26°C and a wind speed of 10 kt from a direction of 69°. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 kt and a headwind of 10 kt, which did not significantly impact the landing. The runway length of 3,195 meters was sufficient to accommodate the aircraft's landing distance of 1,298 meters, which accounted for 41% of the runway.
The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, indicating that the aircraft was properly aligned with the runway during the landing. Similarly, the runway rollout alignment was also perfect, demonstrating that the aircraft maintained its alignment with the runway after touchdown. Overall, the landing was considered successful, with the aircraft achieving a high score and demonstrating good control and precision during the approach and landing phases.
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