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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 35 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: sink rate above what the glideslope needed.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,602 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,602 m of the 2,495 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 684 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing Geneva Cointrin International Airport (LSGG), the Airbus A320 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took approximately 7 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. Upon reaching runway 04, the aircraft initiated its departure roll, utilizing 1,269 meters, or 36% of the runway, to achieve liftoff at a speed of 153 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 15°C, with a gentle wind of 5 knots at 89°, resulting in a 3-knot crosswind and a 4-knot headwind.
As the aircraft climbed to its enroute cruise altitude, it passed overhead Bellevue, Geneva, Switzerland, and continued to ascend to 23,228 feet above sea level, a gain of 20,811 feet in just 7 minutes, covering a distance of 41 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise phase began overhead Champagnole-Crotenay Airfield (LFGX), Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France, and lasted for 43 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 284 nautical miles. The descent phase commenced 8 miles west of Fort-Mahon-Plage, Hauts-de-France, France, and saw the aircraft descend from 23,622 feet to 1,479 feet above sea level, a decrease of 22,142 feet in 17 minutes, covering 84 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 08R at London Gatwick Airport (EGKK) was initiated from the west, with the aircraft heading 78.0° at 3 nautical miles and 1,258 feet above ground level. The landing was completed on the 2,495-meter runway, with the threshold height above target and the threshold speed slightly above target at 130 knots. The touchdown point was 259 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 125 knots and a touchdown rate of -248 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.5 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 7.7 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 1,512 meters, or 61% of the runway. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 417 nautical miles, with a flight time of 1 hour and 11 minutes, and the aircraft used 2,837 kilograms of fuel.
The final approach to runway 08R at EGKK London Gatwick Airport was initiated from the west, heading 78.0° at 3 nm and 1,258 ft above ground level. The approach quality was satisfactory, with the threshold height at 70 ft agl being above the target, indicating a slightly higher than desired rate of descent. The threshold speed of 130 kt was also slightly above the target, suggesting a slightly higher than optimal approach speed.
The aircraft touched down 259 m beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 125 kt, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate of -248 fpm was fair, indicating a moderate rate of descent at touchdown. However, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.5 m from the centreline, which may have contributed to the slightly higher than optimal touchdown speed. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 13 °C and a light headwind of 3 kt, were generally favorable for the landing.
The total landing distance of 1,512 m was 61% of the runway length, indicating a relatively short landing distance. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 7.7 m from the centreline, which may have been a result of the initial touchdown position being off-centre. Overall, the landing was satisfactory, with a score of 87.5%.
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