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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 151 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 135 kt, 16 kt before the 151 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 151 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
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 0.9 ft, 10 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.
On a 3° glideslope your sink rate in feet per minute is roughly your groundspeed in knots times five (5.3, strictly). A Cessna 172 at 65 kt groundspeed is coming down at about 345 fpm. An A320 at 140 kt groundspeed is coming down at about 740 fpm. the entire job of the flare is to take that 350 to 750 fpm and reduce it to something in the normal band, in roughly the last five seconds of the flight.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 135 kt, 16 kt below the 151 kt target, and lifted off at 147 kt 3.5 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 164 kt target, at 166 kt on average.
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 886 ft.
Reached 35 ft at the runway end; gear up at 41 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,280 fpm on average to 886 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 1,656 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. 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.
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 0.4 nm, about 110 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the glideslope.
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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.9 nm, then low to 0.4 nm (up to 110 ft under), then back on it to the threshold.
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 31× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 11 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.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −0 kt and +3 kt on the approach speed of 136 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 1 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 253 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 219° at 1 kt · 1 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.
From 138 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 23 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 33 ft, 17 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 1 ft. Touched down 253 m in, 52 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 520 fpm and 550 fpm from the flare to the runway. The pitch barely changed.
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 2,683 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.5 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 1.8 m of it down the rollout.
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 253 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 523 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at Gibraltar Airport (LXGB) in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 27, the aircraft used 1,241 m of runway, representing 75 % of the available length, and lifted off at 148 kt. Ambient conditions were 25 °C with a wind from 090° at 7 kt; the cross-wind component was 0 kt and a tail-wind component of 7 kt.
Climb commenced 1 mile west of Gibraltar, with the flight ascending from 961 ft asl to 36,010 ft asl, an increase of 35,049 ft achieved in 21 minutes while covering 138 nm.
Level cruise began 2 miles south-east of Jamilena in Andalusia and continued for 80 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 569 nm.
Descent was initiated 1 mile west of Saint-Martin-de-Fugères in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, descending from 36,030 ft asl to 2,088 ft asl, a loss of 33,942 ft over 18 minutes and a distance of 100 nm.
The final approach to runway 17L at Lyon-Saint-Exupéry Airport (LFLL) was flown from the north on a heading of 175.0° at 4 nm and 1,283 ft agl. The aircraft then descended from 1,336 ft agl to 38 ft agl in 101 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 17L, whose total length is 2,683 m, was executed with a threshold speed of 136 kt. Touchdown occurred 251 m down the runway at a speed of 136 kt, with a hard touchdown rate of minus 431 fpm and very good alignment. Local weather was 18 °C with a wind from 220° at 1 kt, a cross-wind of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt. The total landing distance recorded was 998 m, equivalent to 37 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect, confirming the aircraft remained on the centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking stand in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 818 nm, lasted 126 minutes, and consumed 5,083 kg of fuel.
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