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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 8.4 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
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 12 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 140 kt, on the 140 kt target, and lifted off at 144 kt 1.6 s later, the nose coming up at 4.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 144 kt, 10 kt under its 154 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 942 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 175 m of runway left; gear up at 27 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,540 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 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 2,019 m runway.
Rolled from 264 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 8.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.7 m right. Airborne 78 % 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.
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 0.5 nm, then not again: low from 0.5 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 80 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° 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 10 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +24 kt on the approach speed of 128 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
The flare held the target profile well. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.6° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 70 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, 4° of bank.
Wind 321° at 3 kt · 1 kt head · 2 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 126 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 40 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 19 ft, 139 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 4 ft, 46 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 70 m in, 235 m short of 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 500 fpm at the flare to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.1° 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 1,524 m of the 2,686 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.8 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 8.6 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 70 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A220-300 taxied from the parking area to runway 05 at KCRW Yeager Airport in 1 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 05, the aircraft used 1,570 m of runway (78 % of the available length) and lifted off at 144 kt; local weather was 26 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 353 ° and no cross- or head-wind component.
The en-route climb commenced 1 mi north-east of KCRW, climbing from 1,916 ft asl to 36,937 ft asl - an increase of 35,021 ft - in 24 minutes while covering 147 nm.
A level cruise began 2 mi north of VG10 Cathro Airport, lasting 15 minutes and extending over 111 nm.
Descent started 1 mi south of Selby-on-the-Bay, descending from 36,629 ft asl to 7,995 ft asl - a loss of 28,635 ft - in 20 minutes and covering 117 nm.
A subsequent cruise segment over Pennington lasted 7 minutes and spanned 28 nm.
The next descent began 1 mi south-east of Mendham, dropping from 7,572 ft asl to 6,992 ft asl - a loss of 580 ft - in 2 minutes over 5 nm.
Cruising again 1 mi south-east of Randolph lasted 7 minutes and covered 29 nm.
Descent over Linden reduced altitude from 6,994 ft asl to 6,488 ft asl - a loss of 506 ft - in 2 minutes across 6 nm.
A brief cruise over Metuchen lasted 3 minutes and encompassed 11 nm.
Descent beginning 1 mi north of Dayton brought the aircraft from 6,499 ft asl to 1,714 ft asl - a loss of 4,785 ft - in 7 minutes, covering 20 nm.
The final cruise segment over Perth Amboy lasted 3 minutes and covered 8 nm.
On final approach to runway 04R at KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,243 ft agl to 20 ft agl in 106 seconds and scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 04R, which is 2,686 m long, the aircraft achieved a threshold speed of 126 kt (slightly below target), touched down 69 m from the threshold at 125 kt, and recorded a touchdown rate of minus 234 fpm; the touchdown point was 7.0 m off centreline. Local conditions were 20 °C with a wind of 11 kt from 233 °, a 5 kt cross-wind and a 10 kt tail-wind. Total landing distance was 1,356 m (50 % of runway).
Runway rollout alignment was measured at 12.9 m off the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 8 minutes, traveling 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 488 nm, lasted 99 minutes, and consumed 2,779 kg of fuel.
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