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Work on the flare
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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
Side view — the last 1,777 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,777 m of the 3,123 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 697 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Airbus A321 began with a quick 4-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at LPPD Joao Paulo II. The departure roll on runway 12 covered a distance of 1,187 meters, with the aircraft reaching a liftoff speed of 152 knots. The local weather at the time of departure was 23°C with a 4 knot wind coming from 220° resulting in a crosswind of 4 knots and a tailwind of 1 knot.
The enroute climb began overhead Ponta Delgada and saw the aircraft climb from 1,027 feet above sea level to 37,394 feet, covering a total distance of 186 nautical miles in 27 minutes. The level cruise portion of the flight started at Latitude: 37.9835597, Longitude: -21.7260556 and lasted 39 minutes, covering 298 nm.
Another climb followed, starting at Latitude: 38.0076539, Longitude: -15.3902627. The aircraft climbed from 37,401 feet to 38,053 feet, covering 16 nautical miles in 2 minutes. The following level cruise phase started at Latitude: 38.0008341, Longitude: -15.0387522 and lasted 23 minutes, covering 171 nm.
The descent phase of the flight began at Latitude: 38.7578821, Longitude: -11.5168604 with the aircraft descending from 37,583 feet to 1,811 feet, a total decrease of 35,772 feet in 20 minutes and covering 109 nm. The landing was on runway 02 at LPPT Lisbon, with a runway length of 3,123 meters. The touchdown distance was 697 meters from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 132 knots and a VSI of -113 ft/m.
The total landing distance was 1,696 meters, which accounted for 54% of the runway length. The local weather at the time of landing was 17°C with a 2 knot wind coming from 240°, resulting in a crosswind of 1 knot and a tailwind of 2 knots. After landing, the aircraft taxied back to the parking area, which took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 789 nm, took 128 minutes, and consumed 5,892 kg of fuel.
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