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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 147 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 130 kt, 17 kt before the 147 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 147 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Fly a slightly steeper approach path to cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 69 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 69 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, above the normal profile. This fault pattern is often followed by a long touchdown beyond the target point, and here the aircraft touched down at 2,886 ft against a 1,500 ft target.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 13,490 ft runway.
Rolled from 300 ft in, never more than 1 ft off the centreline. Airborne 59 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 889 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,934 ft of runway left; gear up at 91 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,870 fpm on average to 889 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.
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 50 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, 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 26× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 50 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 +18 kt on the approach speed of 133 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 exactly
The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 2,886 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 5,516 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 69 ft, 19 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft. Touched down 2,886 ft in, 1,886 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 5,516 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 560 fpm at the flare to 260 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 139 kt, 6 kt over the 133 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 5,516 ft of the 8,517 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6 ft right of the centreline, and stayed within 7 ft of it down the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 070° at 3 kt · 2 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.
Touched down 2,886 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 124 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.25 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 17L at KCOS, covering 1 nm in 7 minutes.
Take-off was performed on runway 17L with a distance of 8,009 ft, which was 59 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 130 kt. The local weather at departure was 58 °F, wind 0 kt from 359°, with no cross-wind or head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 26 seconds, averaging 1,737 fpm and reaching 181 kt at the top of the climb.
The climb continued from 7,074 ft asl to 37,008 ft asl in 16 minutes, covering 109 nm, beginning 1 mile north-east of Security-Widefield.
Cruise level was held at 37,000 ft asl for 53 minutes, covering 398 nm, starting 18 miles east of 06CO Jecan Airport Branson.
Descent began at 36,886 ft asl and proceeded to 2,139 ft asl in 32 minutes, covering 160 nm, starting 4 miles north-west of 94TX River Bend Ranch Airport Brady, with brief level-offs at 6,000 ft asl and 4,100 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 04 at KSAT descended from 1,390 ft agl to 98 ft agl in 102 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 flap 1 at 2,970 ft agl with a speed of 214 kt.
Landing on runway 04 occurred with a threshold height of 69 ft agl, which was above target, and a threshold speed of 139 kt, recorded as good. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown was 1,494 ft beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 124 kt, noted as good, with a rate of -262 fpm, described as fair. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good and no bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 5,221 ft, 61 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather at KSAT was 66 °F, wind 2 kt from 070°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and 2 kt head-wind component.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, covering 1 nm in 5 minutes.
The flight covered 677 nm in 118 minutes and used 8,890 lb of fuel.
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