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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 170 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 48 kt fast at 218 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 170 kt in the climb
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 23 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 158 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 138 kt, 3 kt below the 141 kt target, and lifted off at 149 kt 2.1 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 averaged 218 kt, 48 kt over its 170 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 826 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,375 m of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,260 fpm on average to 826 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 2,874 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 2.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.6 m right. Airborne 34 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 134 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, banked until 0.6 nm, right of the centreline from 1.0 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 1.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 30 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 724 m left of the centreline at 1.8 nm, then 102 m right of it from 1.0 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +25 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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.7° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 214 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 5° of bank.
Wind 269° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 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 136 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.35 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.
Began the flare at 38 ft, 37 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 214 m in, 91 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 went from 820 fpm at the flare to 650 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.7° 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 1,524 m of the 2,489 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 26 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 23 m left at the widest.
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 214 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 651 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 26 at EPKT Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport. Take-off distance was 979 m (34 % of runway) and rotation occurred at 138 kt. Local weather was 18 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, with 0 kt crosswind and 1 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft AGL took 37 seconds, averaging 1,109 fpm and reaching 250 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,913 ft ASL to 25,970 ft ASL in 9 minutes, covering 48 nm, beginning 1 mile north-west of Ozarowice.
Level flight was held at 26,000 ft ASL for 22 minutes, covering 154 nm, starting 4 miles north-west of Secemin.
Descent began from 25,924 ft ASL to 743 ft ASL in 18 minutes, covering 95 nm, starting 2 miles south of Wabrzezno, with a brief level-off at 2,500 ft ASL.
Final approach to runway 07 at EPCE Cewice Air Base descended from 560 ft AGL to 52 ft AGL in 37 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate and glideslope; speed was not met. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 1,378 ft AGL at 258 kt and final flap position 4 at 1,061 ft AGL at 244 kt.
Landing on runway 07 was on a good threshold height. Threshold speed was good at 138 kt. The flare was described as fair, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred at 133 kt, a little fast, and the touchdown rate was heavy at minus 652 fpm. Touchdown distance was good at 214 m, but the runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 26.1 m from centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 750 m (30 % of runway) and runway rollout alignment was excessively misaligned by 158.1 m from centreline.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The total flight covered 301 nm in 51 minutes and used 1,021 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 15 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, with 0 kt crosswind and 1 kt tailwind.
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