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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 174 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 151 kt against a target of 174 kt, running 23 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 174 kt.
Arrival
Add power earlier on final to hold VREF of 146 kt by the gates rather than let speed decay.
What happened: The approach was flown too slow through the stabilisation gates, crossing the threshold at 144 kt against a VREF of 146 kt.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 146 kt from the first stabilisation gate onward.
See Arrival Approach
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 153 kt with 7.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 151 kt, 23 kt under its 174 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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 910 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 204 m of runway left; gear up at 56 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,330 fpm on average to 910 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 2,135 m runway.
Rolled from 103 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2 m right. Airborne 67 % 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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 146 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.7 nm, about 280 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after 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 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, 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 20× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 19 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.0 nm, then slow to 0.7 nm (up to −12 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
Touchdown
The flare held the target profile well. Pitch reached 7.4° at touchdown, well above this type's ground attitude. Touchdown was 826 m past the threshold. That is tail strike territory - stop the rotation once the sink is arrested.
6 kt across from the right, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 132 kt. Touched down with the nose 5° into wind, wings level.
Wind 300° at 14 kt · 12 kt head · 6 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 127 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 49 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 1,870 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 72 ft, 22 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 46 ft. Touched down 826 m in, 521 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 1,870 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 950 fpm at the flare to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.2° 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 1,870 m of the 2,739 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.4 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0 m right 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 826 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321 taxied from the parking area to runway 04 at KLGA LaGuardia Airport in 1 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 04, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 1,436 m, representing 67 % of the runway, and achieved a liftoff speed of 153 kt. Ambient conditions were 28 °C with a wind of 14 kt from 50°, a 4 kt crosswind component and a 13 kt headwind.
Climb commenced overhead College Point, New York, with the airplane ascending from 974 ft asl to 33,594 ft asl, an increase of 32,620 ft in 22 minutes while covering 132 nm.
Level cruise began 3 miles east of Airville, Pennsylvania, and persisted for 60 minutes, during which the flight covered 423 nm.
Descent was initiated 3 miles west of SC75 Oolenoy Valley Airport, Pickens, South Carolina, with the aircraft descending from 33,724 ft asl to 2,262 ft asl, a loss of 31,462 ft in 22 minutes and a distance of 115 nm.
The final approach to runway 26R at KATL Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was flown from the east, on a heading of 270.0°, at 4 nm and 1,234 ft agl.
Landing on runway 26R, which is 2,739 m long, occurred with a threshold height of 73 ft agl and a threshold speed of 145 kt. The touchdown point was 405 m beyond the touchdown zone, the speed at touchdown was 132 kt, and the vertical speed was -229 fpm. The touchdown position was offset by 7.0 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 32 °C with a wind of 13 kt from 300°, a 7 kt crosswind and a 12 kt headwind.
The total landing distance recorded was 1,785 m, representing 65 % of the runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 678 nm, took 115 (units as provided), and consumed 5,213 kg of fuel.
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