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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 170 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 79 kt fast at 249 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 170 kt in the climb
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 137 kt, 5 kt below the 142 kt target, and lifted off at 150 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 249 kt, 79 kt over its 170 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. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 563 m of runway left; gear up at 120 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,310 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 2,180 m runway.
Rolled from 189 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.2 m right. Airborne 51 % 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
Not every check held at once from 0.8 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 100 ft above 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 8× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 45 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then fast to 0.2 nm (up to +17 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.5° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 240 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 0 kt tail · 1 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.
Began the flare at 34 ft, 28 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 240 m in, 65 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 760 fpm at the flare to 620 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.7° 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 2,399 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.6 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 240 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 620 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 20 at LFKJ Ajaccio-Napoléon Bonaparte Airport. Rotation occurred at 137 kt and the takeoff used 1,122 m of runway (51 % of runway). Local weather was 17 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 0 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 38 seconds, averaging 1,263 fpm and reaching 247 kt at the top. The climb continued from 984 ft asl to 23,966 ft asl in 9 minutes, covering 52 nm, beginning 2 nm south-east of Ajaccio. Level cruise was held at 24,000 ft asl for 50 minutes, covering 364 nm, starting 22 nm north-west of Galeria. Descent from 24,013 ft asl to 1,681 ft asl lasted 17 minutes over 86 nm, beginning 3 nm north-east of Chichee, with a brief level-off at 10,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 02 at LFPO Paris-Orly Airport began with a descent from 1,449 ft agl to 58 ft agl in 89 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 5,270 ft agl, 303 kt; final flap position 3 was selected at 3,155 ft agl, 212 kt.
Landing on runway 02 (runway length 2,399 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 146 kt. The flare was described as good, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 239 m down the runway at 143 kt, a little fast, with a heavy touchdown rate of minus 620 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was very good. No bounce was observed. Local weather at the airport was 18 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 0 kt.
The total flight covered 509 nm in 78 minutes and used 1,574 kg of fuel.
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