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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 808 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
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.
Below 10,000 ft you are typically limited to 250 kt indicated (a US rule that much of the world mirrors in some form, though not universally). This forces a deceleration around 10,000 ft whether the profile wants one or not, so plan for it rather than discovering it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 138 kt, 3 kt above the 135 kt target, and lifted off at 147 kt 1.5 s later, the nose coming up at 2.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 195 kt, 25 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 903 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,962 m of runway left; gear up at 808 ft, 408 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,110 fpm on average to 903 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 3,105 m runway.
Rolled from 37 m in, never more than 0.9 m off the centreline. Airborne 27 % 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 0.2 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.2 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.2 nm, then 9 m left of it from 0.2 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 +2 kt and +18 kt on the approach speed of 130 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 3.3° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 343 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 126 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 27 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 45 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 17 ft. Touched down 343 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 1,524 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 540 fpm at the flare to 290 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.3° 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 2,586 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.7 m left of the centreline and drifted to 22 m left 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 343 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 01 at LZKZ Košice International Airport. Take-off distance was 843 m (27 % of runway) and rotation occurred at 138 kt. Local temperature was -8 °C.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 23 seconds, averaging 2,053 fpm and reaching 205 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 1,710 ft asl to 10,009 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 18 nm while remaining overhead Košice.
Cruise continued to 10,015 ft asl before beginning descent. The descent from 10,015 ft asl to 3,816 ft asl lasted 7 minutes and covered 33 nm, starting 2 miles east of Gelnica.
Final approach to runway 27 at LZTT Poprad-Tatry Airport began with a descent from 1,553 ft agl to 41 ft agl in 100 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Configuration was gear down at 2,702 ft agl and 196 kt; final flap position 4 was selected at 2,494 ft agl and 192 kt.
Landing on runway 27 (runway length 2,586 m) had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 132 kt. The flare was described as very good, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred at 126 kt, speed judged good, and the touchdown rate was -286 fpm (fair). Touchdown distance was 343 m (good) and the touchdown point was 7.2 m off centreline. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 848 m (33 % of runway) and rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing from the runway to parking took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 57 nm in 17 minutes, using 801 kg of fuel. Local temperature at landing was -9 °C.
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