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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 161 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 140 kt against a target of 161 kt, running 21 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 161 kt.
Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown reached 2 g. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: G meter at touchdown: a little less than 2 g next time
Start to finish · 26 stages, 24 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
A quick rotation
The nose came up at 142 kt against the 143 kt rotate speed, and rose at 4.8° a second, faster than the 1.9 to 2.7 other Airbus A319 pilots fly.
The rotation started on speed but the nose came up quickly. A fast pull raises the nose faster than the aircraft can lift off, which brings the tail closer to the runway. Pull smoothly at the normal rate for this aircraft and let it fly off at its own attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 8,155 ft runway.
Rolled from 460 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 33 ft at the widest, and lifted off 24 ft left, in 5 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 52 % 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 907 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,145 ft of runway left; gear up at 751 ft, 66 ft past the 685 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,660 fpm on average to 907 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 1.9 to 2.7° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A319 pilots over the last 180 days (51 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 13.9°, 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, 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 450 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 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 +5 kt and +11 kt on the approach speed of 132 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
The flare tracked the target profile closely
The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 2,249 ft past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 45 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 27 ft. Touched down 2,249 ft in, 1,249 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 510 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at 19 ft, then back up to 360 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed. Into the flare at 140 kt, 8 kt over the 132 kt approach speed, and 131 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 5,000 ft of the 10,454 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 13 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 20 ft left at the widest. 3 kt across from the left, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 131 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 064° at 8 kt · 7 kt head · 3 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.
Touched down 2,249 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.95 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 132 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 a taxi from the parking area to runway 36 at KOMA Eppley Airfield. The taxi covered 1 nm and took 9 minutes.
Take-off was performed on runway 36. The aircraft used 4,241 ft of runway, which is 52 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 142 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 54 °F, wind 16 kt from 340°, giving a 5 kt crosswind and a 15 kt headwind.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 12 seconds, averaging 3,240 fpm and reaching 132 kt at the top. The climb continued from 2,062 ft asl to 30,269 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 103 nm, with brief level-offs at 8,000 ft asl and 25,000 ft asl. Cruise was at 31,000 ft asl for 22 minutes, covering 156 nm, beginning 3 mi east of 08K Harvard State.
Descent from 30,983 ft asl to 19,227 ft asl took 12 minutes over 63 nm, starting 10 mi north of KCBK Shalz Field. A climb from 19,301 ft asl to 20,860 ft asl followed, lasting 3 minutes and covering 14 nm, beginning 7 mi south-west of KITR Kit Carson County Airport. Level flight at 21,200 ft asl lasted 2 minutes over 7 nm, starting 17 mi south of Stratton.
A further descent from 21,024 ft asl to 6,913 ft asl took 21 minutes, covering 76 nm, beginning 21 mi west of Cheyenne Wells, with a brief level-off at 16,600 ft asl. Level flight at 6,900 ft asl continued for 11 minutes over 34 nm, starting 5 mi north of CO09 Youtsey Airport. The final descent segment dropped from 6,632 ft asl to 5,867 ft asl in 1 minute, covering 2 nm, beginning 1 mi north-west of Pueblo.
On final approach to runway 08R at KPUB Pueblo Memorial Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,230 ft agl to -10 ft agl in 96 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. The configuration on final was flap position 3 at 13,017 ft agl, speed 234 kt.
Landing was on runway 08R, whose length is 10,454 ft. The threshold height was good. Threshold speed was slightly above target at 140 kt. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 886 ft beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 131 kt, a little fast, with a firm rate of -356 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 14 ft from the centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 54 °F, wind 8 kt from 064°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and a 7 kt headwind. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 4,494 ft, 43 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, taxi to the parking area took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 463 nm in 103 minutes and used 6,826 lbs of fuel.
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