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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 10 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
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 41 kt FAST on the reference speed of 147 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,936 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,936 m of the 3,710 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 112 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321neo taxied from the parking area to runway 36L at LEMD Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, a movement that lasted 4 minutes and covered 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 36L, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 158 kt and left the ground after traveling 1,751 m, which represented 40 % of the runway length. Ambient conditions were 24 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 239°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a tail-wind component of 1 kt.
The climb commenced 2 miles north-west of Paracuellos de Jarama, climbing from 2,981 ft asl to 32,898 ft asl - an altitude gain of 29,917 ft - in 13 minutes while covering 86 nm.
Level cruise began 1 mile south of Hoyocasero and was maintained for 15 minutes, during which the aircraft progressed 120 nm.
Descent started 3 miles north-east of La Codosera, descending from 33,001 ft asl to 1,632 ft asl - a loss of 31,369 ft - over 21 minutes and a distance of 123 nm.
The final approach to runway 02 at LPPT Humberto Delgado Airport was executed from the south on a heading of 23.0° at 4 nm and 1,274 ft agl. The aircraft then descended from 1,303 ft agl to 19 ft agl in 83 seconds, scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 02 was performed on a runway 3,710 m long. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 148 kt. Touchdown distance was good at 115 m; touchdown speed at 148 kt was a little fast. The touchdown rate was hard at minus 408 fpm and the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 4.7 m from the centreline. Local weather reported 23 °C, wind 3 kt from 320°, a cross-wind of 3 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt. Total landing distance measured 1,878 m, 51 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 341 nm, required 58 minutes from departure to arrival, and consumed 1,627 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 02 at LPPT was flown from the south on a heading of 23.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,274 ft agl. At the 1,000 ft gate the approach was assessed as unstable, with sink rate too high and more than 20 kt above VREF. Descent continued from 1,303 ft agl to 19 ft agl in 83 seconds and the approach was scored on the stabilisation gates.
During the threshold and flare phase the runway length was 3,710 m. Threshold height was good and threshold speed was good at 148 kt. Touchdown distance was good at 115 m, although touchdown speed at 148 kt was a little fast.
Touchdown occurred with a hard rate of minus 408 fpm and the aircraft was slightly misaligned by 4.7 m from the centreline. Local weather was temperature 23 °C, wind 3 kt at 320 °, crosswind 3 kt and headwind 1 kt.
Rollout used a total landing distance of 1,878 m, representing 51 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
The 72.1 % score reflects a generally acceptable landing but the unstable approach with excess sink and speed, together with the hard touchdown, should be addressed. Concentrating on achieving a stabilized approach within the 1,000 ft gate limits and refining flare technique to reduce touchdown rate will improve future performance.
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