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Departure
Apply small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft tracked 9.9 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and flights with this pattern usually carry extra bank, around 5.5°, into the first climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level, tracking the runway centreline
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.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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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 3,153 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 280 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320 taxied from the parking area to runway 09R at LFPG Charles de Gaulle International Airport, a movement that lasted 13 minutes and covered 4 nm.
Takeoff was executed on runway 09R with a ground roll of 1,852 m, representing 44 % of the runway length, and the aircraft lifted off at 158 kt. Local conditions were 28 °C temperature, wind 14 kt from 251 °, a 3 kt crosswind component and a 14 kt tailwind.
Climb commenced overhead Mauregard, rising from 1,374 ft asl to 28,873 ft asl, an altitude gain of 27,499 ft achieved in 13 minutes while covering 67 nm.
The first cruise segment began 1 mile south-east of Buno-Bonnevaux and continued for 27 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 190 nm at level flight.
Descent phase one started 1 mile south-east of La Chaise-Dieu, descending from 28,980 ft asl to 22,436 ft asl, a loss of 6,544 ft over 7 minutes and 50 nm.
A brief cruise followed, beginning 1 mile south-west of Saint-Priest, lasting 2 minutes and covering 11 nm.
Descent phase two began overhead Valvigneres, dropping from 22,008 ft asl to 1,274 ft asl, a decrease of 20,734 ft completed in 14 minutes across 67 nm.
Final approach to runway 13L at LFML Marseille Provence Airport was conducted from the north-west on a heading of 134.0 °, at 4 nm and 1,251 ft agl.
Landing on runway 13L occurred on a runway 3,153 m long; the threshold speed was recorded at 139 kt, touchdown distance was 280 m, touchdown speed was 141 kt, and touchdown rate was minus 550 fpm. The total landing distance measured 1,306 m, equivalent to 41 % of the runway.
Rollout after touchdown maintained very good alignment along the runway centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 396 nm, took 81 minutes, and consumed 3,404 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320 approached runway 13L at LFML Marseille Provence Airport from the north-west on a heading of 134.0° at 4 nm and 1,251 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.
At threshold the height was good and the threshold speed was good at 139 kt. The aircraft crossed the threshold 280 m from the runway end, with a touchdown speed of 141 kt that was a little fast and a very hard touchdown rate of minus 550 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the local weather was 33 °C with wind 18 kt from 130°, giving a 1 kt crosswind component and an 18 kt headwind.
Touchdown occurred with the aircraft aligned very well on the centreline, the speed remaining slightly above the target and the vertical speed remaining hard at minus 550 fpm, confirming the earlier observations of a fast and firm touchdown.
Rollout used a total landing distance of 1,306 m, representing 41 % of the 3,153 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
A minor reduction in touchdown speed toward the target VREF and a slightly softer flare would lessen the hard vertical rate while preserving the excellent alignment and stabilised approach demonstrated. Maintaining the current approach discipline will keep performance near the high 92.7 % score achieved.
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