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Departure
Apply small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft tracked 13 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and flights with this pattern usually carry extra bank, around 8°, into the first climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level, tracking the runway centreline
Arrival
Hold the landing attitude until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 274 fpm, firmer than a full-marks touchdown. The threshold speed, the threshold height and the flare all scored well, so nothing before the touchdown explains it.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 274 fpm next time
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early, and slowly
The nose came up at 140 kt, 10 kt before the 150 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.5° a second, slower than the 2.1 to 2.9 other Airbus A320ceo 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 1,997 m runway.
Rolled from 85 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 13 m at the widest, and lifted off 13 m left, in 7 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 76 % of the way down the runway, past 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 248 m.
Reached 11 m with 64 m of runway left; gear up at 101 m, inside the 122 m that gets full marks; then climbing at 9.1 m/s on average to 248 m.
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 11 m, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 11 m, 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 305 m and 152 m 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 3.0 m/s, 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 m 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 98 m for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 15 m. 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 24× 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 34 kt fast at the 305 m gate, closing to 20 at 152 m and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −5 kt and +29 kt on the approach speed of 135 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 2.8 points, mostly for taking only 1.7 m/s of the sink out.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 13 m, close to the 15 m target; began the flare at 11 m. Touched down 357 m in, 52 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: 24 m top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 15 m 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 3.0 m/s at the flare to 1.4 m/s at touchdown. The nose came up 1.8° on the way down. Into the flare at 129 kt, 6 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 −3 is 3 m a second 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 3,148 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.7 m left of the centreline and drifted to 7.2 m right on the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 160° at 3 kt · 3 kt head · 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 357 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 57 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 09 at EGGD Bristol Airport in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 09 with a distance of 1,511 m, which was 76 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 140 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 10 °C, wind 14 kt from 050°, giving a crosswind component of 8 kt and a headwind component of 11 kt.
Initial climb to 304.8 m agl took 25 seconds, averaging 8.0 m/s and reaching 180 kt at the top of the segment.
Climb continued from 446 m asl to 10,633 m asl in 18 minutes, covering 110 nm and passing overhead Winford.
Level flight was held at 10,668 m asl for 32 minutes, covering 252 nm, beginning 3 miles south-east of Worthing.
Descent began from 10,480 m asl to 852 m asl in 29 minutes, covering 167 nm, starting 1 mile south of Dienville, with a brief level-off at 2,134 m asl.
Final approach to runway 14 at LSZH Zürich Airport descended from 433.3 m agl to 20.1 m agl in 92 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 on final was landing gear down at 600.2 m agl with 212 kt, and final flap position 5 at 214.3 m agl with 168 kt.
Landing was made on runway 14 (runway length 3,148 m). Threshold height was good and threshold speed was good at 130 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 357 m down the runway at 124 kt, a good speed, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 1.4 m/s. Runway touchdown alignment was very good and there was no bounce.
Total landing distance was 1,154 m, 37 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was temperature 12 °C, wind 5 kt from 160°, giving a crosswind component of 2 kt and a headwind component of 5 kt.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 10 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 538 nm in 96 minutes and used 3,143 kg of fuel.
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