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Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,512 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.5 m off the centreline. Airborne 35 % 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 935 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,410 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,990 fpm on average to 935 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 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.
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 10 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 45× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 8 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 31 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 −0 kt and +20 kt on the approach speed of 125 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 50 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 435 m in, 130 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 620 fpm at 50 ft to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.9° on the way down. Into 50 ft at 128 kt, 3 kt over the 125 kt approach speed, and 122 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 3,082 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.9 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.1 m left at the widest. 8 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 122 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 210° at 13 kt · 10 kt head · 8 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 435 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 112 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 28 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 flight began with the Airbus A320 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Eindhoven Airport, taking approximately 6 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 21, with the aircraft lifting off after a takeoff distance of 1,065 meters, which accounted for 42% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 151 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time were characterized by a temperature of 16°C, a wind speed of 16 knots at 200°, resulting in a 4-knot crosswind and a 16-knot headwind.
As the aircraft climbed away from Eindhoven Airport, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead the airport and continued for 5 minutes, covering a distance of 19 nautical miles. The aircraft climbed from an altitude of 1,076 feet above sea level to 11,862 feet, an increase of 10,786 feet. Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, which lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 20 nautical miles, starting 2 miles east of Bavel, a town in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands.
The enroute descent began 1 mile south of Huijbergen, another town in the province of North Brabant, and lasted for 12 minutes, covering a distance of 31 nautical miles. During this time, the aircraft descended from an altitude of 11,744 feet above sea level to 1,444 feet, a decrease of 10,300 feet. The final approach to runway 25L at Brussels Airport was made from the east, with the aircraft heading 250° at an altitude of 1,289 feet above ground level, 4 nautical miles from the runway.
The landing on runway 25L at Brussels Airport was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 122 knots, which was slightly above the target speed. The touchdown distance was good at 434 meters, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 13°C, a wind speed of 14 knots at 210°, resulting in a 9-knot crosswind and an 11-knot headwind.
Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking approximately 9 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 77 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 32 minutes. The aircraft used 1,297 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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