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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 3.4°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming through the flare so the sink is fully arrested before the wheels meet the runway.
What happened: Landing g force ran high at 1.1 g through the flare, and the touchdown followed through firm at 1 g.
Watch for: Watch the g meter at touchdown against the normal touchdown rate band.
A good takeoff has a defined shape. It also has a defined end. For an airliner that's thrust reduction and acceleration, commonly somewhere around 1,000 to 1,500 ft above the airfield depending on the operator, while for a light aircraft it's established at Vy with the flaps on schedule. Most simmers have no defined end to their takeoff, which is exactly why it never gets judged.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 150 kt, on the 151 kt target, and lifted off at 157 kt 5.1 s later, the nose coming up at 1.5° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 174 kt target, at 169 kt on average.
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 505 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,463 ft of runway left; gear up at 347 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 960 fpm on average to 505 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 10,008 ft runway.
Rolled from 497 ft in, drifted 17 ft left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 56 % 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.
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.
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, 1,000 ft 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 10 ft 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 all the way, between +3 kt and +5 kt on the approach speed of 135 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
Perfect landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 029° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 0 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 67 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 29 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 22 ft. Touched down 1,502 ft in, 502 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 380 fpm at the flare to 100 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.0° 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 5,000 ft of the 7,993 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 10 ft right at the widest.
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 1,502 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321neo taxied from the parking area to runway 36C at KCLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport in 18 minutes, covering 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 36C, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 158 kt and left the ground after traveling 5,610 ft, representing 56 % of the runway; ambient temperature was 72 °F with a wind of 2 kt from 218°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead KCLT, rising from 1,079 ft asl to 37,984 ft asl - a gain of 36,905 ft - in 41 minutes while covering 131 nm.
The first level cruise began 6 nm south of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, lasting 8 minutes and traversing 28 nm.
Descent started over TN98 Sky Ranch Airport, Knoxville, dropping from 37,758 ft asl to 20,098 ft asl - a loss of 17,660 ft - in 22 minutes and covering 65 nm.
A second cruise segment originated 5 nm northwest of Pikeville, Tennessee, lasting 7 minutes and extending 16 nm.
The next descent began 9 nm southeast of McMinnville, Tennessee, decreasing altitude from 19,927 ft asl to 10,559 ft asl - a loss of 9,368 ft - in 15 minutes over 29 nm.
A brief cruise followed 2 nm southeast of 62TN Meadow Lark Aerodrome, lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nm.
Descent resumed 2 nm southwest of the same aerodrome, falling from 10,107 ft asl to 6,551 ft asl - a loss of 3,556 ft - in 7 minutes while traveling 12 nm.
The aircraft then cruised 2 nm northeast of TN65 Long Meadow Airstrip, Franklin, for 10 minutes, covering 17 nm.
A further descent began 2 nm northeast of TN81 Shultz Airport, Franklin, dropping from 5,989 ft asl to 4,434 ft asl - a loss of 1,555 ft - in 3 minutes across 5 nm.
Cruise continued 5 nm southeast of Franklin for 3 minutes, adding 4 nm to the flight path.
The final descent started 5 nm east of Franklin, reducing altitude from 3,968 ft asl to 1,830 ft asl - a loss of 2,138 ft - in 6 minutes and covering 7 nm.
On final approach to runway 02C at KBNA Nashville International Airport, the aircraft aligned from the south on a heading of 18.0° at 4 nm and 1,256 ft agl, then descended from 1,302 ft agl to 75 ft agl in 198 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing on runway 02C was executed with a threshold speed of 138 kt, touchdown occurring 1,510 ft down the runway at 132 kt and a vertical speed of minus 154 fpm; the runway length is 7,993 ft, the total landing distance recorded was 3,541 ft (44 % of the runway), and local conditions were 76 °F with a 2 kt wind from 43°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Runway rollout alignment was very good, completing the landing phase without deviation.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 10 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 331nm, required 150 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 5,930 lbs of fuel.
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