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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 175 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 156 kt against a target of 175 kt, running 19 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 175 kt.
Arrival
In the last part of the flare, hold a little more back pressure to fully arrest the sink before the mains touch down.
What happened: Threshold speed and height were within limits, and the flare began on time and arrested the sink normally; even so, the touchdown rate was 212 fpm, a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smooth, gentle rate at touchdown
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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 2,502 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 312 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 26R at LFPG Charles de Gaulle International Airport in 10 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Takeoff was executed on runway 26R with a ground roll of 1,886 m, representing 52 % of the runway length; liftoff occurred at 158 kt. Local weather at departure reported a temperature of 34 °C, wind 10 kt from 339 °, with a 10 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
The initial climb began overhead LFPG, ascending from 1,306 ft asl to 38,000 ft asl, an increase of 36,694 ft achieved in 21 minutes while covering 211 nm.
Cruise commenced 10 miles south-west of EGJB Guernsey Airport and continued for 16 minutes, during which 451 nm were flown.
A subsequent climb segment started at latitude 51.4078551, longitude -14.3003123, climbing from 38,000 ft asl to 39,000 ft asl, a gain of 999 ft in 2 minutes and covering 52 nm.
The next cruise phase originated at latitude 51.6702214, longitude -15.7664178 and lasted 44 minutes, traversing 1,397 nm.
A further climb began 44 miles east of Catalina (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), rising from 39,054 ft asl to 40,001 ft asl, an increase of 947 ft in 2 minutes over 54 nm.
Cruise continued 19 miles south-west of Catalina for 33 minutes, during which 896 nm were covered.
Descent commenced overhead NK17 August Field Gansevoort, descending from 39,838 ft asl to 5,009 ft asl, a loss of 34,829 ft in 11 minutes while covering 128 nm.
A brief level segment followed 2 miles west of West Milford, lasting 2 minutes and covering 14 nm.
The next descent started 1 mile south of Wyckoff, dropping from 5,001 ft asl to 1,255 ft asl, a decrease of 3,746 ft in 5 minutes across 15 nm.
Final approach to runway 22L at KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport was flown from the north-east, on a heading of 206.0° at 4 nm and 1,237 ft agl.
Landing on runway 22L, which is 2,502 m long, occurred with a threshold speed slightly above target at 135 kt. Touchdown was recorded 313 m down the runway at 133 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 190 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment; total landing distance was 1,209 m, representing 48 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 3,229 nm, lasted 148 minutes, and consumed 41,869 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A350-900 entered the final approach to runway 22L at KEWR from the north-east on a heading of 206.0° at 4 nm and 1,237 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits, and the local weather was 32 °C with wind 12 kt from 220°, a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 12 kt head-wind.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 135 kt, which was slightly above the target. The flare was executed from the appropriate height, transitioning smoothly to touchdown.
Touchdown occurred 313 m down the runway at a speed of 133 kt, noted as a little fast, with a vertical rate of -190 fpm described as good and runway touchdown alignment perfect.
Rollout continued with a total landing distance of 1,209 m, representing 48 % of the 2,502 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
Minor refinements should focus on achieving the target threshold speed of 135 kt and reducing the touchdown speed slightly to better match the intended VREF, which will further optimise landing performance.
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