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Lower the nose and add power to accelerate back to climb speed.
What happened: Climb speed was slower than the target during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against climb speed target.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,176 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 342 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 25R at Brussels Airport, covering 1 nm in 6 minutes.
During the departure roll on runway 25R the aircraft used 2,283 m (69 % of the runway) and lifted off at 158 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 21 °C, wind 2 kt from 160°, cross-wind 2 kt and head-wind 0 kt.
Climb commenced overhead Diegem, rising from 1,091 ft asl to 18,789 ft asl - an increase of 17,698 ft - over 8 minutes while covering 40 nm.
Level cruise began 1 mile southeast of Jodoigne and continued for 12 minutes, during which 95 nm were flown.
Descent started 2 miles northeast of Burscheid, descending from 18,996 ft asl to 2,016 ft asl - a loss of 16,980 ft - in 17 minutes and covering 88 nm.
Final approach to runway 24 at Paderborn Lippstadt Airport was executed from the northeast on a heading of 237.0° at 4 nm and 1,317 ft agl.
The Airbus A320 landed on runway 24, whose length is 2,176 m. Threshold conditions were good with a threshold speed of 139 kt. Touchdown occurred 343 m down the runway at 132 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 187 fpm and perfect alignment. Local weather at the time was temperature 24 °C, wind 5 kt from 120°, cross-wind 4 kt and tail-wind 2 kt. Total landing distance was 1,390 m, representing 64 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area, covering less than 1 nm in 2 minutes.
Overall, the flight covered 231nm, lasted 46 minutes and used 2,154 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 24 at EDLP Paderborn Lippstadt Airport was flown from the north-east on a heading of 237.0° at 4 nm and 1,317 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
During the threshold and flare the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 139 kt. Touchdown distance was good at 343 m, while touchdown speed was a little fast at 132 kt. Touchdown rate was good at minus 187 fpm and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The touchdown occurred with the aircraft aligned perfectly on the centreline, speed of 132 kt, sink rate of minus 187 fpm and a distance of 343 m from the threshold. The total landing distance measured 1,390 m, representing 64 % of the 2,176 m runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good and the aircraft remained centred throughout the rollout, completing the landing within the available runway length.
Minor refinement of the touchdown speed would bring the landing even closer to the optimum profile; a slight reduction toward the target speed will improve the margin without affecting the already excellent alignment and rollout performance.
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