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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 161 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 36 kt fast at 197 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 161 kt in the climb
Arrival
Begin raising the nose earlier, by 11 ft, so the flare has time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 3.2 ft, 8.1 ft below the normal band, and a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and start the flare in the normal band, around 11 ft.
Trim is the hidden variable. In trim, the flare is a small refinement to an aircraft already in equilibrium, a couple of millimetres of stick. Out of trim, you're holding a constant force all the way down final, and the flare becomes a large, badly judged movement stacked on top of a load you're already carrying. A striking proportion of "I can't judge the flare" complaints are trim complaints wearing a disguise. If you're holding pressure at 500 feet, fix that before you practise anything else.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 149 kt, 7 kt above the 142 kt target, and lifted off at 161 kt 2.0 s later, the nose coming up at 2.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 197 kt, 36 kt over its 161 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 891 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,068 m of runway left; gear up at 245 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,480 fpm on average to 891 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 3,495 m runway.
Rolled from 77 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.8 m left. Airborne 31 % 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.
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 40 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 22× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 16 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 28 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +0 kt on the approach speed of 113 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 strayed well off the target profile. The flare began at 3 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 194 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 037° at 4 kt · 3 kt head · 0 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 3 ft. Touched down 194 m in, 111 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 stayed between 410 fpm and 450 fpm from the flare to the runway. The nose came up 0.7° 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 3,007 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.6 m left of the centreline.
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 194 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.49 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A319 taxied from the parking area to the runway for 4 minutes, covering 1 nm, and departed from runway 11 at LRTR Timişoara Traian Vuia Airport. Take-off was performed on a 1,081 m roll, which is 31 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 149 kt. Local weather at departure was 17 °C, wind 2 kt from 310°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 19 seconds, averaging 2,333 fpm and reaching 205 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,289 ft asl to 38,009 ft asl in 14 minutes, covering 84 nm while the aircraft was overhead the departure airport. Level cruise was held at 38,000 ft asl for 35 minutes, covering 264 nm, beginning 4 miles south-west of Roszke.
Descent began from 38,017 ft asl and proceeded to 1,498 ft asl in 29 minutes, covering 158 nm, starting 3 miles west of Ankaran, with a brief level-off at 5,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 04 at LIPX Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport descended from 1,320 ft agl to 25 ft agl in 134 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 2,904 ft agl at 130 kt, and final flap position 5 was selected at 2,887 ft agl at 128 kt.
Landing was made on runway 04, whose length is 3,007 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 111 kt. The flare was very poor, starting late. Touchdown occurred 194 m from the threshold at 111 kt, with a hard rate of -410 fpm. The aircraft touched down slightly misaligned, 4.6 m off the centreline, and experienced one bounce. Local weather at landing was 17 °C, wind 4 kt from 037°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind.
The total flight covered 511 nm, lasted 83 minutes, and consumed 2,774 kg of fuel.
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