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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Hold the nose down a touch longer and let speed build to 159 kt before liftoff.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 139 kt, 20 kt below the 159 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 159 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Adjust your approach path so you touch down at the 457 m aim point instead of beyond it.
What happened: Touchdown point came 211 m past the target, landing at 668 m against the 457 m aim point. Landings that touch down this far beyond the aim point typically leave less runway available for stopping.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
Start to finish · 15 stages, 13 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff pitch close to a tail strike
The wheels left at 12.0°, at or past this aircraft's 11.7° tail strike.
The tail can only touch while the main wheels are still on the runway, so the margin that matters is the one at liftoff. Rotate at the rotate speed, at the normal rate, and let the aircraft fly itself off at its own attitude: keep the pull going towards the climb attitude only once the wheels have left. Rotating early, or pulling faster than the aircraft can lift off, is what eats the margin.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,046 m runway.
Rolled from 93 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 10 m right. Airborne 76 % of the way down the runway, past 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 1,010 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 759 m of runway left; gear up at 25 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,340 fpm on average to 1,010 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.
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 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 LHBP, 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° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 100 ft above 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 4 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 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +2 kt and +23 kt on the approach speed of 137 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 tracked the target profile exactly
The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 668 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.
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,755 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft. Touched down 668 m in, 364 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 1,755 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 570 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 139 kt, on the 137 kt approach speed, and 131 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 1,755 m of the 3,742 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.3 m of it down the rollout. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 000° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 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.
Touched down 668 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 126 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 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 A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 31L at LHBP Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 31L with a take-off distance of 1,168 m (38 % of the runway). Liftoff occurred at 139 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 5 °C, wind 3 kt from 360°, with a 2 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 22 seconds, averaging 2,215 fpm and reaching 188 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,425 ft asl to 3,853 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 6 nm, beginning 2 nm east of Kispest.
Cruise was level at 4,000 ft asl for 3 minutes, covering 13 nm, beginning 2 nm west of Csomor. Descent from 3,677 ft asl to 1,743 ft asl took 4 minutes over 13 nm, beginning 1 nm south-west of Gyomro, with a brief level-off at 3,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 31R at LHBP began with a descent from 1,346 ft agl to -15 ft agl in 97 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration was gear down at 1,873 ft agl at 176 kt; final flap position 5 was selected at 981 ft agl at 149 kt.
Landing was on runway 31R, whose length is 3,742 m. The threshold height at 57 ft agl was slightly above target, while the threshold speed of 139 kt was good. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 282 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 131 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 92 fpm and perfect runway alignment. No bounce was observed.
Total landing distance was 1,700 m (45 % of the runway) and rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather at landing was temperature 4 °C, wind 3 kt from 360°, with a 2 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
The flight covered 45 nm in 18 minutes and used 712 kg of fuel.
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