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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Use small rudder inputs against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout.
What happened: During the rollout the aircraft drifted 22 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 163 kt, 11 kt above the 152 kt target, and lifted off at 170 kt 1.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 192 kt, 18 kt over its 174 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 866 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,356 m of runway left; gear up at 142 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,230 fpm on average to 866 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 4,012 m runway.
Rolled from 115 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.8 m left. Airborne 33 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 0.3 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 60 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 11× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 15 m right of it from 0.3 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +2 kt on the approach speed of 123 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 held the target profile well. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 718 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.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 337° at 4 kt · 3 kt head · 1 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 128 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 44 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 2,159 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 45 ft, 13 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 42 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 718 m in, 413 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 2,159 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 600 fpm at the flare to 70 fpm at 18 ft, then back up to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 2.4° 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 2,159 m of the 4,090 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.1 m right of the centreline and drifted to 17 m right on the rollout, back to 6.9 m right by the end.
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 718 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 378 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321neo taxied from the parking area to runway 34C at OEJN King Abdulaziz International Airport in 10 minutes, covering 3 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 34C with a take-off distance of 1,332 m (33 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 163 kt. The local weather at departure was 38 °C, wind 3 kt from 269°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 14 seconds, averaging 3,112 fpm and reaching 194 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 994 ft asl to 36,742 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 160 nm, with brief level-offs at 6,000 ft asl and 13,000 ft asl, starting overhead OEJN.
The aircraft then level-flew at 37,100 ft asl for 92 minutes, covering 723 nm, beginning 44 mi south of OEPJ Pump Station 10.
Descent began from 37,121 ft asl to 1,344 ft asl in 25 minutes, covering 123 nm, starting 11 mi north-west of OMLW Liwa Airport, with a brief level-off at 6,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 31R at OMAA Zayed International Airport descended from 1,316 ft agl to 71 ft agl in 113 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 1,769 ft agl, 151 kt; final flap position 9 at 1,800 ft agl, 148 kt.
Landing on runway 31R (runway length 4,090 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 124 kt. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 305 m beyond the touchdown zone at 125 kt, a little fast, with a firm rate of minus 379 fpm. The touchdown point was 3.1 m off the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 2,081 m (51 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 22.0 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 43 °C, wind 4 kt from 340°, giving a 2 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind.
The aircraft taxied to the parking area from the runway in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 1,015 nm in 156 minutes and used 5,001 kg of fuel.
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