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Arrival
Fly a slightly steeper approach path to cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 65 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 65 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, above the normal profile. This fault pattern is often followed by a long touchdown beyond the target point, and here the aircraft touched down at 554 m against a 457 m target.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
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.
Start to finish · 14 stages, 13 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated late, and quickly
The nose came up at 153 kt, 7 kt after the 146 kt rotate speed, and rose at 3.9° a second, faster than the 1.9 to 2.7 other Airbus A319 pilots fly.
The pull started late and then came quickly, as if to make up the time. Start it on the rotate speed instead, so there is nothing to catch up, and keep it to the normal rate for this aircraft.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,361 m runway.
Rolled from 32 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 8.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.9 m left, in 7 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 43 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 918 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,639 m of runway left; gear up at 52 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,370 fpm on average to 918 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 1.9 to 2.7° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A319 pilots over the last 180 days (50 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 13.9°, 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.
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 3.8 nm, about 1,240 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. 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 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 2 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.8 nm (up to +34 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 65 ft, 15 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft. Touched down 554 m in, 249 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 620 fpm at the flare to 320 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed. Into the flare at 123 kt, on the 125 kt approach speed, and 122 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 1,524 m of the 2,683 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.4 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 1.6 m right by the end of the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 138° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 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.
Touched down 554 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 123 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 36 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A319 taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at LEZL Sevilla Airport, a 10-minute taxi covering 3 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 27 with a distance of 1,426 m, which was 42 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 153 kt. Local weather at departure was 22 °C, wind 8 kt from 180°, giving a 7 kt crosswind and no headwind.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 21 seconds, averaging 2,279 fpm and reaching 185 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 1,099 ft asl to 37,553 ft asl in 17 minutes, covering 126 nm while remaining overhead LEZL Sevilla Airport.
Cruise was maintained at 38,000 ft asl for 53 minutes, covering 475 nm, beginning about 5 mi north-east of Saceruela.
Descent began from 37,798 ft asl and proceeded to 2,062 ft asl in 22 minutes, covering 143 nm, starting roughly 4 mi north-east of Saint-Geniez-d’Olt.
Final approach to runway 17L at LFLL Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport descended from 1,314 ft agl to 70 ft agl in 108 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 2,180 ft agl with 204 kt, and final flap position 5 was selected at 1,117 ft agl with 151 kt.
Landing on runway 17L (runway length 2,683 m) had a threshold height of 65 ft agl, which was above target, while the threshold speed of 124 kt was good. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 129 m beyond the touchdown zone at 122 kt, a good speed, with a firm rate of minus 315 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned, 6.4 m off the centreline. Local weather at landing was 15 °C, wind 3 kt from 139°, giving a 2 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind. No bounce was observed.
Total landing distance was 1,184 m, 44 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied to the parking area from the runway in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 753 nm in 104 minutes and used 3,383 kg of fuel.
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