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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 13 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Carry more power on approach to hold 137 kt at the threshold instead of letting speed decay into the flare.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 36 ft while already below the speed target, and the aircraft settled as the remaining energy ran out, usually carrying a firm touchdown with it at 209 fpm.
Watch for: Watch airspeed on short final against 137 kt, keeping it there through the flare.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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 2,901 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 378 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 6 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The Airbus A321 then departed from runway 34 at Zürich Airport (LSZH), with a takeoff distance of 794 meters, which was 25% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 131 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of a temperature of 32°C and a wind speed of 3 knots at 66°. The crosswind was 3 knots, while the headwind was 0 knots. The enroute climb started overhead Oberglatt, a town in the Kanton Zurich region of Switzerland, and continued to an altitude of 37,792 feet above sea level, an increase of 35,338 feet in 23 minutes, covering a distance of 131 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 2 miles south east of Bolzano, a city in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy. This phase lasted for 47 minutes and covered a distance of 350 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, which started 35 miles south of Lastovo, a town in the Dubrovacko-Neretvanska Zupanija region of Croatia. The descent from 38,550 feet above sea level to 4,790 feet above sea level, a decrease of 33,760 feet, took 20 minutes and covered a distance of 114 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 6 miles east of Torchiarolo, a town in the Puglia region of Italy. This phase lasted for only 2 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, which started 4 miles east of Torchiarolo. The descent from 4,407 feet above sea level to 1,352 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,055 feet, took 4 minutes and covered a distance of 9 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 31 at Brindisi Airport (LIBR) was made from the south east, with a heading of 317.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,314 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 31 was successful, with a runway length of 2,901 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was also good at 136 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 376 meters, but the touchdown speed of 138 knots was a little fast. The touchdown rate was hard at -411 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 15.9 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 27°C and a wind speed of 16 knots at 320°. The crosswind was 1 knot, while the headwind was 16 knots. The total landing distance was 1,176 meters, which was 41% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 15.5 meters from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxiied to the parking area, a process that took 5 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 616 nautical miles, which was covered in 107 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 4,813 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Airbus A321 aircraft successfully landed at LIBR Brindisi Airport, achieving a score of 91.0%. The final approach to runway 31 was initiated from the south east, heading 317.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,314 feet above ground level.
The aircraft touched down on the runway with a good threshold height, and the threshold speed was also satisfactory at 136 knots. However, the touchdown speed of 138 knots was slightly higher than expected, which may have contributed to a harder touchdown rate of -411 feet per minute. The touchdown distance of 376 meters was within acceptable limits.
Despite the good threshold height and touchdown speed, the aircraft's runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 15.9 meters from the centreline. This misalignment was also observed during the runway rollout, where the aircraft was 15.5 meters off-centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 27°C, a wind speed of 16 knots from 320°, resulting in a 1-knot crosswind and a 16-knot headwind.
The total landing distance of 1,176 meters was 41% of the runway length, which is within acceptable limits. However, the hard touchdown rate and misaligned touchdown and rollout positions may indicate some room for improvement in the aircraft's landing technique. Overall, the landing was successful, but there are areas for refinement to achieve a higher score.
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