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Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 183 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 484 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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 2,290 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,290 m of the 4,173 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 593 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in question was operated by an Airbus A350-1000 aircraft. The journey began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took approximately 7 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then departed from runway 09 at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, with a takeoff distance of 1,725 meters, which accounted for 51% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 174 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 8 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 6 knots at 130 degrees. The crosswind component was 4 knots, while the headwind component was also 4 knots. As the aircraft took off, it began its enroute climb, which started approximately 1 mile north-west of Amstelveen, a town in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. The climb phase involved an increase in altitude from 983 feet above sea level to 32,361 feet, a rise of 31,378 feet, over a distance of 140 nautical miles, and took approximately 22 minutes to complete.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started approximately 1 mile north-east of Birken-Honigsessen, a town in the state of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. This phase lasted for 220 minutes, covering a distance of 1,751 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb phase, this time from 33,580 feet to 35,091 feet, an increase of 1,511 feet, over a distance of 13 nautical miles, and took approximately 2 minutes to complete.
The aircraft continued its journey, entering another level cruise phase, which started approximately 14 miles south-west of Quba, a town in the Quba Rayon, Azerbaijan. This phase lasted for 190 minutes, covering a distance of 1,680 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb phase, this time from 35,454 feet to 37,473 feet, an increase of 2,019 feet, over a distance of 31 nautical miles, and took approximately 3 minutes to complete.
The aircraft entered another level cruise phase, which started approximately 15 miles west of ZHUO Huoche Xizhan Airport, a airport in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. This phase lasted for 293 minutes, covering a distance of 2,455 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent phase, which started approximately 5 miles north of Kitaibaraki, a town in the Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. The descent involved a decrease in altitude from 36,546 feet to 9,965 feet, a drop of 26,581 feet, over a distance of 77 nautical miles, and took approximately 14 minutes to complete.
The aircraft continued its descent, entering another level cruise phase, which started approximately 20 miles east of Asahi, a town in the Chiba prefecture, Japan. This phase lasted for 7 minutes, covering a distance of 25 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another descent phase, which started approximately 26 miles east of Ohara, a town in the Chiba prefecture, Japan. The descent involved a decrease in altitude from 9,964 feet to 7,151 feet, a drop of 2,813 feet, over a distance of 12 nautical miles, and took approximately 3 minutes to complete.
The aircraft entered another level cruise phase, which started approximately 19 miles east of Ohara, a town in the Chiba prefecture, Japan. This phase lasted for 3 minutes, covering a distance of 13 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another descent phase, which started approximately 9 miles south-east of Naruto, a
The Airbus A350-1000 successfully landed at RJAA Narita International Airport on runway 34L, achieving a score of 89.7%. The aircraft approached the runway from the southeast, heading 330.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,206 feet above ground level (agl).
The final approach was executed with a good threshold speed of 137 knots, which is within the acceptable range. However, the threshold height at 66 feet agl was above the target, indicating a slight deviation from the ideal approach path. The touchdown point was 175 meters beyond the touchdown zone, which is a relatively minor deviation.
The touchdown speed of 135 knots was slightly faster than the ideal speed, resulting in a hard touchdown rate of -449 feet per minute (fpm). This could be attributed to the aircraft's high approach speed, which may have been influenced by the local weather conditions. The temperature was -2°C, and the wind was blowing at 4 knots from the same direction as the aircraft's heading, resulting in a negligible crosswind component.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.4 meters from the centerline, which could be due to the pilot's judgment or the aircraft's navigation system. Despite this, the runway rollout alignment was very good, indicating that the pilot maintained control of the aircraft during the rollout phase.
The total landing distance of 2,207 meters was 53% of the runway length, which is within the acceptable range. Overall, the landing was successful, and the pilot demonstrated good control and judgment during the approach and rollout phases. However, there is room for improvement in terms of touchdown speed and threshold height.
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