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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Hold the back pressure smoothly through the moment of touchdown and let the mainwheels settle without relaxing or adding a second pitch input.
What happened: The approach and flare both stayed within limits, yet the aircraft bounced at touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, continuous sink through to touchdown with no second pitch input.
Start to finish · 15 stages, 13 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early, and slowly
The nose came up at 151 kt, 6 kt before the 157 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.4° a second, slower than the 1.6 to 2.8 other Airbus A321ceo pilots fly.
The nose started up before the rotate speed and then came up slowly, as if easing it off early. Wait for the rotate speed, then make one steady pull at the normal rate for this aircraft.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,470 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 2.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.6 m right, in 14 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 58 % 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 901 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 459 m of runway left; gear up at 57 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,140 fpm on average to 901 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. 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 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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. 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.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 1.6 to 2.8° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A321ceo pilots over the last 180 days (74 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 9.7°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +17 kt on the approach speed of 144 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
Excellent landing flare
It lost 0.1 points, for taking only 383 fpm of the sink out.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 20 ft. Touched down 242 m in, 63 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 640 fpm at the flare to 250 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° on the way down. Into the flare at 144 kt, on the 144 kt approach speed, and 142 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 2,739 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 4.8 m right on the rollout. 9 kt across from the right, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 142 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 340° at 10 kt · 4 kt head · 9 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 242 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.25 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 23 at KBUF Buffalo Niagara International Airport, a movement that lasted 10 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 23. The aircraft used 1,435 m of runway, which is 58 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 146 kt. Local weather at departure was 11 °C with wind 17 kt from 290°, giving a cross-wind component of 16 kt and a head-wind component of 7 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 23 seconds, averaging 1,801 fpm and reaching 169 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,681 ft asl to 35,999 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 133 nm, beginning about 1 mile north of Cheektowaga.
The aircraft level-flew at 36,000 ft asl for 47 minutes, covering 352 nm, with the segment starting overhead Prospect.
Descent began at 35,993 ft asl and proceeded to 2,323 ft asl in 24 minutes, covering 134 nm, starting 5 miles north-west of Maggie Valley.
During final approach to runway 26R at KATL Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,337 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 97 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. The landing gear was lowered at 1,645 ft agl with a speed of 178 kt; final flap position 5 was selected at 1,274 ft agl with a speed of 167 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 26R, whose length is 2,739 m. Threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 144 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 242 m down the runway at a speed of 142 kt, noted as a little fast, with a vertical rate of minus 251 fpm, rated fair. Alignment at touchdown was perfect. One bounce occurred after touchdown. Total landing distance was 1,164 m, representing 42 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that lasted 22 minutes and covered 2 nm.
The flight covered a total of 629 nm in 115 minutes and consumed 4,594 kg of fuel. Local weather at the destination was 22 °C with wind 13 kt from 340°, giving a cross-wind component of 12 kt and a head-wind component of 4 kt.
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