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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 164 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 42 kt fast at 206 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 164 kt in the climb
Arrival
Hold the aim point and wait for the speed to bleed before raising the nose, starting the flare within the normal band instead of 60 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 60 ft, 15 ft earlier than the normal band.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: start the flare within the normal flare band
See Arrival Landing
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early, and slowly
The nose came up at 141 kt, 7 kt before the 148 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.7° a second, slower than the 2.1 to 2.9 other Airbus A320ceo pilots fly.
The nose started up before the rotate speed and then came up slowly, as if easing it off early. Wait for the rotate speed, then make one steady pull at the normal rate for this aircraft.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,335 m runway.
Rolled from 50 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 1.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.9 m right. Airborne 55 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 956 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 697 m of runway left; gear up at 19 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,640 fpm on average to 956 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 2.1 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A320ceo pilots over the last 180 days (230 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 11.7°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.3 nm, about 450 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 40 ft below the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 511 m right of the centreline at 2.0 nm, then inside the band from 1.5 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −0 kt and +2 kt on the approach speed of 133 kt.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Great landing flare
It lost 4.7 points, for starting the flare at 60 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,632 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 60 ft, 247 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 323 m in, close to the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,632 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 790 fpm at the flare to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.9° on the way down. Into the flare at 134 kt, on the 133 kt approach speed, and 127 kt at touchdown.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,632 m of the 2,504 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.8 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 3 m of it down the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 150° at 9 kt · 9 kt tail · 1 kt across
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way. The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 323 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo departed from runway 09 at EDDW Bremen Airport. Rotation was achieved at 141 kt and the take-off run was 1,280 m (55 % of the runway). Local weather was 7 °C with a wind 2 kt from 070°, giving a 2 kt headwind and 1 kt cross-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 32 seconds at an average rate of 1,526 fpm, reaching 220 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,016 ft asl to 37,004 ft asl in 17 minutes, covering 122 nm, beginning the climb 2 nm south-east of Bremen. Cruise level was 37,000 ft asl for 17 minutes, covering 131 nm, starting 2 nm south of Ballenstedt. Descent from 36,994 ft asl to 1,851 ft asl lasted 27 minutes and covered 135 nm, beginning 1 nm south of Flossenburg.
On final approach to runway 33 at LOWS Salzburg Airport, descent from 670 ft agl to 70 ft agl was completed in 47 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope and speed. Gear was lowered at 3,272 ft agl with a speed of 201 kt; final flap position 5 was selected at 1,860 ft agl with a speed of 168 kt.
The aircraft landed on runway 33, whose length is 2,504 m. Threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 133 kt. The flare was described as great. Touchdown occurred 323 m down the runway at a speed of 127 kt, a little fast, with a rate of -219 fpm, which was fair. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,554 m (62 % of the runway) and rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The flight covered 394 nm in 68 minutes and used 6,558 kg of fuel. Local weather at the destination was 7 °C with a wind 9 kt from 150°, giving a 9 kt tailwind and 1 kt cross-wind.
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