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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Smooth your pitch and roll inputs during the climb so the g force stays close to 1.3 g instead of spiking.
What happened: During the third climb segment the g force swung to 1.3 g, well outside the steady level flight band.
Watch for: Watch the g-meter and keep it settled near the normal one g climb band.
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 114 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 125 kt against a target of 114 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 114 kt at the threshold.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 125 kt, 9 kt below the 134 kt target, and lifted off at 147 kt 3.4 s later, the nose coming up at 0.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 209 kt, 14 kt over its 195 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 863 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,245 m of runway left; gear up at 139 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,940 fpm on average to 863 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 3,585 m runway.
Rolled from 202 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 5 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.7 m right. Airborne 27 % 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.
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 1.3 nm, then not again: fast from 0.5 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 90 ft below 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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.3 nm, then drifted 70 m right between 1.3 and 0.4 nm, then inside the band from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
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 29 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +14 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 tracked the target profile closely. Crossing the threshold 11 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 708 m past the threshold. The flare cannot burn off excess energy - fix the approach speed and the float goes with it.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° left of the track, 4° of bank.
Wind 129° at 4 kt · 4 kt head · 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.
From 117 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 35 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 1,892 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 44 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 22 ft. Touched down 708 m in, 403 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 1,892 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 340 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at 8 ft, then back up to 290 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.1° 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 1,892 m of the 2,211 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.6 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 1.5 m left by the end of 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 708 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 292 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Departing from Leipzig/Halle Airport, the Airbus A300 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 14 minutes and covered a distance of 6 nautical miles. As it reached the runway, the aircraft accelerated down runway 26L, lifting off at a speed of 148 knots after a takeoff distance of 992 meters, which accounted for 28% of the runway's length. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 11 degrees Celsius, with a gentle wind of 3 knots from a direction of 10 degrees, resulting in a slight tailwind of 1 knot.
As the aircraft climbed to cruising altitude, it passed over the town of Schkeuditz in Saxony, Germany, and continued its ascent to 35,926 feet above sea level, a gain of 34,442 feet in just 16 minutes and covering a distance of 102 nautical miles. The enroute climb phase was followed by a level cruise, which started over the town of Nagel in Bavaria, Germany, and lasted for 56 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 395 nautical miles. The crew then initiated a descent, which began 2 miles northwest of San Secondo in Umbria, Italy, and continued until the aircraft reached 26,093 feet above sea level, a decrease of 9,622 feet in just 3 minutes and covering a distance of 23 nautical miles. The final descent phase started 3 miles northwest of Avigliano Umbro in Umbria, Italy, and brought the aircraft down to 1,787 feet above sea level in 12 minutes, covering a distance of 55 nautical miles.
As the Airbus A300 approached Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport, it began its final approach to runway 15 from the northwest, heading 153.0 degrees at an altitude of 1,396 feet above ground level and 4 nautical miles from the runway threshold. The aircraft landed on the runway, which was 2,211 meters long, with a threshold speed that was well above the target at 125 knots. The touchdown point was 288 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 119 knots, which was slightly faster than desired. However, the touchdown rate was good at -196 feet per minute. The aircraft's runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 4.6 meters. After landing, the Airbus A300 taxied to the parking area, a process that took 2 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 609 nautical miles, and the aircraft used 7,792 kilograms of fuel during the journey.
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