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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 170 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 28 kt fast at 198 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 170 kt in the climb
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.
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.
Rotated at 151 kt, on the 149 kt target, and lifted off at 166 kt 4.0 s later, the nose coming up at 1.1° a second. Climb 3 averaged 198 kt, 28 kt over its 170 kt target.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 839 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,492 m of runway left; gear up at 403 ft, inside the 640 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,040 fpm on average to 839 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 3,330 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1 m off the centreline. Airborne 44 % 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.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then not again: low from 0.8 nm to the threshold.
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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 110 ft under).
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 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 11 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 34 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 +3 kt and +5 kt on the approach speed of 134 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
Touchdown
The flare mostly held the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.1° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 381 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 134 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 319° at 5 kt · 2 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 133 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 35 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 24 ft. Touched down 381 m in, 76 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 1,524 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 350 fpm at the flare to 260 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,524 m of the 3,710 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.3 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.4 m right at the widest.
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 381 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo taxied from the parking area to runway 35 at LPPR Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 35, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 167 kt and left the ground after traveling 1,474 m, which represented 44 % of the runway length. Ambient conditions were 20 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 180°, a crosswind component of 0 kt and a tailwind component of 2 kt.
Climb commenced 2 mi north-west of Moreira, rising from 1,110 ft asl to 22,266 ft asl, an altitude gain of 21,156 ft achieved in 8 minutes while covering 45 nm.
The level cruise segment began 1 mi west of Mosteiro and lasted 15 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 105 nm at cruise altitude.
Descent started 4 mi south-west of Rio Maior, descending from 22,740 ft asl to 1,622 ft asl, a loss of 21,118 ft over 17 minutes and a distance of 75 nm.
Final approach to runway 02 at LPPT Humberto Delgado Airport was conducted from the south, on a heading of 23.0° at 4 nm and 1,265 ft agl. Weather at the destination was 18 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 320°, a crosswind component of 4 kt and a headwind component of 2 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 02 with a threshold speed of 138 kt, a touchdown distance of 383 m and a touchdown speed of 134 kt. The vertical speed at touchdown was minus 160 fpm and the touchdown point was offset 5.1 m from the centreline. Total landing distance was 1,021 m, representing 28 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good, and the aircraft came to a stop within the remaining runway length.
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 232 nm, lasted 49 minutes and consumed 1,706 kg of fuel.
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