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Departure
Smooth and reduce pitch inputs during the climb so g force stays steady near 1.4 g.
What happened: During the second climb segment, g force varied through 1.4 g, outside the smooth target band.
Watch for: G meter in Climb 2, holding within the normal steady climb band.
Arrival
Stop raising the nose once the sink is arrested at 0.4 ft, holding that pitch steady through touchdown rather than further.
What happened: The nose came up 3.8° in the flare, leaving pitch well above this type's ground attitude at touchdown. Carrying that much pitch through touchdown usually carries a bounce after it.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold pitch at the normal ground attitude through touchdown.
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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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 3,072 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 408 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 04L at KJFK, a movement that lasted 10 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 04L the aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 1,388 m, representing 39 % of the runway, and rotated at 144 kt. Ambient temperature was 21 °C with wind 12 kt from 349°, giving a head-wind component of 9 kt and a cross-wind of 8 kt.
Climb commenced overhead KJFK, rising from 997 ft asl to 21,007 ft asl - an increase of 20,010 ft - in 8 minutes while covering 40 nm.
Level cruise began 2 miles southeast of Easton, Connecticut, and continued for 10 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 68 nm.
Descent started 2 miles northeast of CT43 Spruce Airport, Jewett City, Connecticut, descending from 20,917 ft asl to 1,339 ft asl, a loss of 19,579 ft in 17 minutes and covering 77 nm.
Final approach to runway 33L at KBOS proceeded from 1,355 ft agl to 50 ft agl in 111 seconds, and the approach was scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing was made on runway 33L at KBOS, which is 3,072 m long. The threshold speed was 132 kt. Touchdown occurred 408 m down the runway at 126 kt, described as a little fast, with a vertical speed of minus 236 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 3.5 m from the centreline. Local weather reported a temperature of 15 °C and wind 4 kt from 353°, providing a head-wind component of 3 kt and a cross-wind of 2 kt. Total landing distance measured 1,377 m, equal to 45 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
Runway rollout continued with very good alignment, completing within the measured landing distance.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area, a movement that lasted 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 194 nm, required 50 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 1,842 kg of fuel.
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