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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on approach to bring speed back to 135 kt by the gate.
What happened: The aircraft was too fast at the stabilisation gate, 42 kt above the target of 135 kt.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 135 kt at the gate
See Arrival Approach
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 144 kt, 7 kt before the 151 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,215 m runway.
Rolled from 67 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline, in 6 kn of crosswind from the 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. 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 961 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,189 m of runway left; gear up at 27 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,960 fpm on average to 961 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 2.1 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A320ceo pilots over the last 180 days (230 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 11.7°, 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 34 kt above the approach speed of 135 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.7 nm, about 930 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 90 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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 26 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.7 nm (up to +67 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,596 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 37 ft. Touched down 472 m in, 167 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 1,596 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 650 fpm at the flare to 270 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.5° on the way down. Into the flare at 130 kt, 5 kt under the 135 kt approach speed, and 124 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 1,596 m of the 2,545 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2 m of it down the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 080° at 3 kt · 2 kt tail · 1 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 472 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 125 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 45 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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 Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 33 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 33. The aircraft used 1 665 m of runway, 52 % of the available length, and rotated at 144 kt. Local weather was 6 °C with wind 8 kt from 060°, giving a crosswind component of 8 kt and no headwind.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 27 seconds, averaging 1 748 fpm and reaching 168 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1 057 ft asl to 33 009 ft asl in 16 minutes, covering 92 nm, beginning 1 mile south of Norderstedt.
The aircraft levelled at 33 000 ft asl for 20 minutes, covering 147 nm, with the segment starting overhead Krevese.
Descent from 32 330 ft asl to 1 187 ft asl lasted 25 minutes, covering 119 nm, beginning 2 miles north-east of Rietschen, with a brief level-off at 4 000 ft asl.
A climb from 1 175 ft asl to 19 616 ft asl took 11 minutes, covering 47 nm, starting 1 mile north of Zabrodzie.
Level flight at 20 000 ft asl continued for 8 minutes, covering 51 nm, beginning 2 miles south-east of Osiek.
Descent from 20 011 ft asl to 2 090 ft asl lasted 9 minutes, covering 44 nm, starting overhead Kodersdorf.
Final approach to runway 22 at EDDC Dresden Airport began with a descent from 1 412 ft agl to 48 ft agl in 94 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate. The landing gear was lowered at 1 651 ft agl at 219 kt, and final flap position 5 was selected at 844 ft agl at 147 kt.
Landing was made on runway 22, which is 2 545 m long. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 130 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 61 m beyond the touchdown zone at 124 kt, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 266 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. Local weather was 2 °C with wind 2 kt from 080°, giving a crosswind of 2 kt and a tailwind component of 2 kt. No bounce occurred.
The total landing roll was 1 519 m, 60 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect. Taxi from the runway to the parking area took 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 507 nm in 98 minutes and used 4 309 kg of fuel.
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