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Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 21 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 21 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 21 ft to touchdown.
See Arrival Landing
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 3,297 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 522 m past the threshold — beyond 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, an Airbus A321, then departed from runway 25 at LFPO Paris-Orly Airport. The takeoff distance was 1,554 meters, which accounted for 54% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 170 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 16°C temperature and a wind speed of 2 knots at 270°. The crosswind was negligible, with a headwind of 1 knot. The enroute climb started overhead Morangis, a town in the Ile-de-France region of France, and continued to an altitude of 34,827 feet above sea level. This climb phase covered a distance of 178 nautical miles and took 28 minutes, with the aircraft ascending by 33,528 feet.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which began 3 miles east of Baccarat, a town in the Grand Est region of France. This phase lasted for 31 minutes and covered a distance of 260 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its enroute descent, which began 4 miles north of Winklern, a town in the Kaernten region of Austria. The descent phase took 18 minutes and covered a distance of 82 nautical miles, with the aircraft descending by 32,705 feet to an altitude of 2,472 feet above sea level.
The final approach to runway 30 at LJLJ Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport was made from the southeast, with the aircraft heading 306.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,228 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 30, which had a length of 3,297 meters. The threshold height was above the target, but the threshold speed was good at 145 knots.
The touchdown point was 113 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was a little fast at 141 knots. However, the touchdown rate was smooth at -145 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.3 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were similar to those encountered during takeoff, with a temperature of 16°C and a wind speed of 1 knot at 310°.
The total landing distance was 1,330 meters, which accounted for 40% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. 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 528 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 87 minutes. The aircraft used 4,621 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A321 aircraft successfully landed at Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport, with a score of 91.9%. The final approach to runway 30 was initiated from the south east, heading 306.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,228 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft's approach was characterized by a smooth touchdown rate of -145 feet per minute (fpm), indicating a well-controlled descent.
However, there were a few areas for improvement. The threshold height at 69 feet agl was above the target, suggesting that the aircraft may have been slightly high on its approach. Additionally, the touchdown speed of 141 knots was a little fast, which may have contributed to the aircraft landing beyond the touchdown zone. Specifically, the touchdown point was 113 meters beyond the designated touchdown zone.
The runway touchdown position was also slightly misaligned by 4.3 meters from the centerline, which may have been due to a slight deviation in the aircraft's approach path. Despite these minor issues, the runway rollout alignment was very good, indicating that the aircraft's brakes were applied smoothly and effectively.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were favorable, with a temperature of 16°C and a gentle wind of 1 knot at 310°. The crosswind component was negligible, and the headwind component was minimal at 1 knot. Overall, the landing was successful, but there is room for improvement in terms of approach height, touchdown speed, and alignment.
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