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Departure
Rotate the moment the speed tape reaches 140 kt, not after it.
What happened: Rotation was held until 159 kt, 19 kt past the 140 kt rotation target. Carrying that much extra speed into rotation usually adds unwanted energy right at liftoff.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the 140 kt rotation target.
Arrival
Fly a stabilized approach and flare to touch down at the target point of 457 m.
What happened: Touchdown occurred past the normal point, landing 226 m beyond the target distance. This pattern typically reduces the margin available for stopping before the runway end.
Watch for: Watch touchdown point against the 457 m marker.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 15 stages, 13 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 159 kt with 6.6° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 161 kt target, at 159 kt on average.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 909 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,162 m of runway left; gear up at 99 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,100 fpm on average to 909 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,099 m runway.
Rolled from 81 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.5 m left, in 11 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 53 % 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
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 more than 32 kt above the approach speed of 129 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.8 nm, about 940 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 20 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 7 m off the centreline.
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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.8 nm (up to +38 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Touchdown
The flare tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 683 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
4 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 124 kt. Touched down with the nose 6° left of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 290° at 13 kt · 12 kt head · 4 kt across
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. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 118 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 29 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,635 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 18 ft. Touched down 683 m in, 378 m past 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 1,635 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 420 fpm at the flare to 30 fpm at 9 ft, then back up to 390 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.1° on the way down.
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 1,635 m of the 2,739 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.3 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 4.1 m right by the end of the rollout.
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.
Touched down 683 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 391 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A319 taxied from its parking position to runway 09R at KMLB Melbourne Orlando International Airport in 9 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 09R, the aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 1,645 m, representing 53 % of the runway, and lifted off at 160 kt; ambient conditions were 35 °C with a wind of 16 kt from 040°, a cross-wind component of 12 kt and a head-wind component of 11 kt.
Climb commenced one mile northwest of Melbourne, Florida, where the A319 rose from 985 ft asl to 36,512 ft asl, a gain of 35,526 ft achieved in 18 minutes while traversing 112 nm.
Level cruise began one mile northeast of Hastings, Florida, and was maintained for 22 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 151 nm.
Descent was initiated six miles west of Uvalda, Georgia, with the aircraft descending from 37,014 ft asl to 2,286 ft asl, a loss of 34,729 ft completed in 25 minutes over a distance of 133 nm.
The final approach to runway 27L at KATL Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was flown from the east, on a heading of 270.0° at 4 nm and 1,249 ft agl.
Landing on runway 27L, which is 2,739 m long, occurred with a threshold height of 57 ft agl and a threshold speed of 138 kt; touchdown was recorded 266 m beyond the touchdown zone at 124 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 218 fpm and a lateral deviation of 9.3 m from the centreline. Local weather at the time was 27 °C, wind 10 kt from 290°, cross-wind 3 kt and head-wind 9 kt. The total landing distance measured 1,554 m, equivalent to 57 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment remained slightly off centreline by 9.3 m as the aircraft decelerated after touchdown.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to its parking stand in 6 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 406 nm, taking 78, and consumed 2,677 kg of fuel.
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