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Departure
Hold the nose down a touch longer and let speed build to 154 kt before liftoff.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 128 kt, 26 kt below the 154 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 154 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Bring the power back earlier on final so the speed settles to 128 kt well before the threshold, instead of carrying it in fast.
What happened: Crossed the threshold at 160 kt, 32 kt above the approach speed; approaches that carry that much extra energy over the threshold usually end up flat on touchdown as the nose stays down, and that combination usually lands firm or hard.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 128 kt at the threshold
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 8 stages, 8 in the score
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The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 128 kt against the 154 kt rotate speed, then held 10.5° from 35 ft, within 4.6° top to bottom.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,440 m runway.
Rolled from 1,550 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 7.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.4 m left, in 9 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 68 % 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 881 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 407 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 779 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,630 fpm on average to 881 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.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3.5° and speed more than 19 kt above the approach speed of 128 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: banked until 0.8 nm, sinking too fast until 0.3 nm, fast from 2.2 nm, left of the centreline from 0.6 nm and low 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.
Why this is not a circuit
Off and back onto LIRN, scored as a flight. A circuit passes all five:
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3.5° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 2.5 nm, where the final began, to 1.0 nm (up to 660 ft over), then back on it to 0.2 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 50 ft under).
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 343 m left of the centreline at 2.5 nm, then inside it from 1.2 to 0.6 nm, then 25 m left of it from 0.6 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 2.5 nm, where the final began, to 2.2 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +56 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
The flare wandered off the target profile
Pitch was -0.7° at touchdown, at or below this aircraft's ground attitude, so the nosewheel met the runway with the main wheels or before them. Touchdown was 356 m past the threshold. Keep raising the nose through the flare so the main wheels touch first.
Touchdown
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 37 ft, 130 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 356 m in, 52 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 480 fpm at the flare to 290 fpm at 18 ft, then back up to 620 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed. Into the flare at 163 kt, 35 kt over the 128 kt approach speed, and 154 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 2,227 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6 m right of the centreline. 5 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 154 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 199° at 10 kt · 7 kt tail · 5 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 356 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 615 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321neo departed from runway 24 at LIRN Naples International Airport. Takeoff used 1,671 m of runway, which is 68 % of the available length, and liftoff occurred at 128 kt. Local weather at departure was 21 °C with wind 16 kt from 199°, giving a 10 kt crosswind and a 13 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft AGL took 30 seconds, averaging 1,604 fpm, and the aircraft reached 207 kt at the top of the climb. Afterward it levelled at 1,400 ft ASL for about one minute, covering 2 nm and passing overhead Stella.
Descent for the final approach began from 1,450 ft AGL and reached 30 ft AGL in 48 seconds. At 500 ft above runway 06 the stabilisation checks were partially met: gear down and landing flap were confirmed, but sink rate, glideslope and speed were not met.
The aircraft continued the approach to runway 06 at LIRN. The threshold speed was recorded at 160 kt, which was higher than desired. The flare was described as fair; the aircraft touched down flat with the nosewheel first. Touchdown occurred 356 m down the runway, at a speed of 154 kt, which was noted as too fast, and the vertical rate was heavy at minus 615 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly off centreline by 6.0 m, but there was no bounce on rollout.
Local weather at landing matched the departure conditions: 21 °C with wind 16 kt from 199°, resulting in a 10 kt crosswind and a 13 kt tailwind. The total flight covered 7 nm in 2 minutes and consumed 91 kg of fuel.
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