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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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed 33 kt FAST on the reference speed of 140 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,619 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,619 m of the 3,520 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 448 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320 taxied from the parking area to runway 25 at KDEN, covering 2 nm in 7 minutes.
Takeoff roll on runway 25 at KDEN was 2,264 m, representing 62 % of the runway. Liftoff occurred at 162 kt. Local weather reported temperature 27 °C, wind 8 kt from 299 °, with a 4 kt crosswind component and a 7 kt headwind.
Climb commenced 3 miles south west of KDEN, climbing from 6,388 ft asl to 35,761 ft asl, an increase of 29,373 ft in 21 minutes while covering 137 nm.
Level cruise began 6 miles north of Silt, Colorado, lasting 182 minutes and covering 570 nm.
Descent started 4 miles north west of Yosemite Valley, California, descending from 36,030 ft asl to 1,292 ft asl, a decrease of 34,738 ft in 23 minutes and covering 128 nm.
Final approach to runway 28R at KSFO was executed from the south east, on a heading of 298.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,264 ft agl.
The aircraft landed on runway 28R, which is 3,516 m long. The threshold height of 56 ft agl was slightly above target, while the threshold speed was 137 kt. Touchdown occurred 450 m down the runway at a speed of 132 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 532 fpm and a lateral deviation of 4.0 m from the centreline. Local weather at KSFO reported temperature 26 °C, wind 10 kt from 20 °, with a 10 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind.
Total landing distance was 1,541 m, representing 44 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
The Airbus A320 taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 843 nm, lasted 130 minutes, and consumed 4,875 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320 established a final approach to runway 28R at KSFO from the south-east, tracking a heading of 298.0° at 4 nm and 1,264 ft agl.
At the threshold the aircraft crossed at 56 ft agl, which was slightly above target, and maintained a good threshold speed of 137 kt.
Touchdown occurred 450 m down the runway; the speed was 132 kt, a little fast, and the vertical rate was very hard at minus 532 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned, being 4.0 m off the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 1,541 m, representing 44 % of the 3,516 m runway.
Rollout alignment was very good, keeping the aircraft on the centreline for the remainder of the deceleration.
Reduce the touchdown speed to bring it closer to the target and aim for a softer vertical rate to avoid the very hard touchdown. Adjust the flare to improve alignment and keep the touchdown point within a tighter centreline tolerance.
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