Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Hold a touch more back pressure through the last of the flare so the mainwheels meet the runway smoothly, without bouncing.
What happened: Touchdown rate was 236 fpm, and the aircraft bounced on contact with the runway.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, continuous sink through touchdown with no bounce.
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
Read more in VRef ExplainedStart to finish · 13 stages, 12 in the score
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 137 kt, 4 kt below the 141 kt target, and lifted off at 155 kt 5.2 s later, the nose coming up at 1.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 175 kt, 11 kt over its 164 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 900 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,518 m of runway left; gear up at 258 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,370 fpm on average to 900 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 2,646 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 3.7 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 13 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 32 % 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 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 30 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 18× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 20 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 33 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 −1 kt and +20 kt on the approach speed of 130 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.6 points, partly for touching down 6.9° above the aircraft's ground attitude.
10 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 128 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 219° at 13 kt · 7 kt head · 10 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.
Side view — the last 1,607 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 59 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft. Touched down 371 m in, 66 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 1,607 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 670 fpm at the flare to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.8° 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 1,607 m of the 2,620 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.2 m left 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 371 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.27 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied to runway 28R at Dublin (EIDW) and departed with a take-off distance of 843 m, which was 32 % of the runway. Rotation was achieved at 137 kt. Local weather at departure was 13 °C with wind 23 kt from 231°, giving a 16 kt cross-wind component and a 17 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 21 seconds, averaging 2 215 fpm and reaching 182 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1 163 ft asl to 2 792 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 1 nm, beginning about 1 mile north-west of the airport.
Level flight was maintained at 3 000 ft asl for 6 minutes, covering 22 nm, starting roughly 2 miles north-west of Dublin. Descent began from 2 473 ft asl to 1 475 ft asl in 2 minutes over 3 nm, starting 1 mile north of Howth.
For the final approach to runway 28L, descent from 1 310 ft agl to 71 ft agl was completed in 116 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. At 2 393 ft agl the aircraft was in final flap position 5 and was flying 143 kt.
Landing on runway 28L (runway length 2 620 m) occurred with a threshold height of 59 ft agl, slightly above target, and a threshold speed of 130 kt, described as good. The flare was noted as great, although the nose was raised too far. Touchdown was recorded at 371 m from the threshold, a good distance, with a speed of 128 kt, a little fast, and a rate of -236 fpm, fair. Alignment on touchdown was perfect. One bounce occurred on touchdown. Total landing distance was 1 526 m, 58 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 11 °C with wind 20 kt from 220°, giving a 17 kt cross-wind component and an 11 kt head-wind component. Taxi from the runway to parking took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 33 nm in 13 minutes and used 21 kg of fuel.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values