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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 80 kt fast at 250 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 170 kt in the climb
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final so speed bleeds back to 140 kt by the threshold, rather than carrying it in.
What happened: This flight crossed the threshold 11 kt above the target speed, then began the flare 16 ft above the normal band. Carrying speed like this across the threshold usually keeps the flare high and ends in a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 140 kt at the threshold.
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 139 kt, on the 139 kt target, and lifted off at 160 kt 3.6 s later, the nose coming up at 1.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 250 kt, 80 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 1,005 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 915 m of runway left; gear up at 154 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 890 fpm on average to 1,005 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 2,488 m runway.
Rolled from 69 m in, never more than 1 m off the centreline. Airborne 45 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.6 to 1.1 nm, then not again: fast from 1.1 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 110 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 304 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 2.6 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.1 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +18 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 wandered off the target profile. The flare began at 61 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 242 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 3° of bank.
Wind 269° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 0 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 149 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.37 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.
Began the flare high, at 61 ft, 43 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 48 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 242 m in, 62 m short of 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 1,290 fpm at the flare to 710 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.4° 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 1,524 m of the 2,500 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 15 m right of the centreline and drifted to 21 m right on 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 242 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.88 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 13 at EPSC Szczecin-Goleniów “Solidarność” Airport. Take-off was performed after a roll of 1,138 m (46 % of the runway) and rotation occurred at 139 kt. Local weather was 17 °C, wind 1 kt from 269°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 65 seconds, averaging 856 fpm and reaching 249 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,160 ft asl to 32,429 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 49 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-east of Mosty.
Cruise was at 26,000 ft asl for 28 minutes, covering 206 nm, starting 4 miles east of Trzcianka. Descent from 32,132 ft asl to 26,029 ft asl took 3 minutes over 23 nm, beginning 5 miles north-west of Czlopa. A further descent from 25,467 ft asl to 1,908 ft asl lasted 15 minutes over 83 nm, starting overhead Pierzchnica, with a brief level-off at 10,100 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 27 at EPRZ Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport began with a descent from 1,227 ft agl to 71 ft agl in 89 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed and wings level; the centreline check was not met at one gate. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 1,304 ft agl, 211 kt; final flap position 3 at 1,301 ft agl, 206 kt.
Landing occurred on runway 27. The threshold speed was slightly above target at 151 kt. The flare was described as fair but started late. Touchdown was at 148 kt, a little fast, with a very heavy rate of -711 fpm. Touchdown distance was good at 242 m, though the touchdown point was misaligned by 14.7 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 866 m (35 % of the runway) and rollout alignment was very good.
Taxi from the runway to parking took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The flight covered 372 nm in 65 minutes, using 1,286 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 15 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, with 0 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind.
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