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Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 5.4 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Apply small, early rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline from touchdown onward.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 9.4 m off the centreline during the landing roll, and by touchdown the offset had grown to 9.7 m. A centreline deviation that appears on landing usually carries through to a larger offset at touchdown.
Watch for: Centreline marker: aircraft tracking straight over the runway centreline, not drifting to either side.
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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,639 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,639 m of the 2,710 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 426 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area for 7 minutes, covering 1 nm, and entered the departure roll on runway 34R at KSEA Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Takeoff was achieved after a distance of 1,713 m (47 % of the runway) with rotation at 160 kt. Local weather was 16 °C, wind 4 kt from 020° (crosswind 1 kt, headwind 4 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 22 seconds, averaging 2,076 fpm and reaching 198 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 1,367 ft asl to 34,997 ft asl in 30 minutes, covering 220 nm, beginning 1 mile south-west of Riverton.
Cruise continued level at 35,000 ft asl for 207 minutes, covering 1,951 nm, starting overhead 11WA Homeport Airport Cheney. A subsequent climb from 35,001 ft asl to 38,697 ft asl lasted 7 minutes over 59 nm, beginning 77 miles south of CC1R Koroc River. Level flight at 39,000 ft asl continued for 246 minutes, covering 2,255 nm, starting 38 miles south-west of CC1N Napaktok Bay.
Descent began from 38,859 ft asl to 1,635 ft asl in 24 minutes, covering 136 nm, starting 4 miles north of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes. The final approach to runway 09L at LFPG Charles de Gaulle International Airport descended from 1,336 ft agl to 46 ft agl in 98 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 4,584 ft agl, 166 kt; final flap position 4 at 4,501 ft agl, 166 kt.
Landing on runway 09L (runway length 2,710 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 140 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred at 426 m down the runway, speed 135 kt (a little fast), with a rate of -95 fpm (excellent). The touchdown point was misaligned by 9.7 m from the centreline. Local weather was 9 °C, wind 6 kt from 170° (crosswind 5 kt, headwind 1 kt). No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,558 m (57 % of the runway) and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area for 9 minutes, covering 3 nm. The flight covered a total of 4,632 nm in 529 minutes and used 55,362 kg of fuel.
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