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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 888 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
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 8.3 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 16.5° and 25.3°, and the speed between 152 kt and 165 kt.
Once clear of the runway the nose moved through a wide range, and the speed moved with it. Set the climb attitude, hold it and trim, and give the speed a few seconds to settle before correcting it with a degree or two of pitch. Chasing the airspeed with large pitch changes makes it wander more.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,704 m runway.
Rolled from 177 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.9 m right. Airborne 42 % 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 942 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,792 m of runway left; gear up at 888 ft, 488 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,990 fpm on average to 942 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 2.0 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A320neo pilots over the last 180 days (157 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 11.7°, 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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 135 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.4 nm, about 480 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. 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 45× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 8 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 from 4 nm to 2.4 nm, then fast to 1.4 nm (up to +36 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
Great landing flare
It lost 4.8 points, for starting the flare at 61 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 61 ft, 192 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 32 ft, 18 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 469 m in, 164 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 950 fpm at the flare to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.9° on the way down. Into the flare at 135 kt, on the 135 kt approach speed, and 129 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 3,595 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.2 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 1.8 m right by the end of the rollout. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 100° at 3 kt · 1 kt tail · 2 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.
The 469 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 131 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 A320neo taxied from the parking area to runway 24 at LKPR Václav Havel Airport Prague in 13 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 24 with a distance of 1,581 m (43 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 149 kt. Local weather was 10 °C, wind 4 kt from 340°, with a 4 kt crosswind and no headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 17 seconds, averaging 2,573 fpm and reaching 152 kt at the top. The climb continued from 2,157 ft asl to 16,644 ft asl in 5 minutes, covering 25 nm and passing overhead Dobroviz.
The aircraft levelled at 17,000 ft asl for 13 minutes, covering 85 nm, with the flight path passing overhead Mala Hrastice.
Descent from 17,000 ft asl to 1,899 ft asl lasted 29 minutes, covering 139 nm, beginning 2 miles south-west of Weitersfeld and including a brief level-off at 8,300 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 34 at LOWW Vienna International Airport began with a descent from 1,349 ft agl to 92 ft agl in 93 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, and wings level; speed was not met at one gate. Configuration was landing gear down at 2,155 ft agl and 190 kt, and final flap position 5 at 1,953 ft agl and 172 kt.
Landing on runway 34 used a threshold speed of 134 kt, which was good. Touchdown occurred 49 m beyond the touchdown zone at 129 kt, with a rate of -189 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 6.3 m from the centreline. The flare was described as great, and there was no bounce.
Total landing distance was 1,422 m (40 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.3 m from the centreline. Local weather at the airport was 7 °C, wind 2 kt from 100°, with a 2 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 10 minutes, covering 1 nm.
The flight covered 258 nm in 68 minutes and consumed 2,121 kg of fuel.
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