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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 26 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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 6.3 ft, 5 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.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 159 kt with 5.9° of pitch.
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 911 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 6,265 ft of runway left; then climbing at 2,970 fpm on average to 911 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 8,654 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 26 ft at the widest, and lifted off 25 ft right. Airborne 14 % 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.
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 340 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, 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 8× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 140 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 −3 kt and +6 kt on the approach speed of 131 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
Poor landing flare
5 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 128 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 099° at 13 kt · 12 kt head · 5 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 119 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 39 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 5,196 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 53 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,441 ft in, 441 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 5,196 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 470 fpm at 53 ft to 260 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.9° 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 5,196 ft of the 11,012 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 18 ft left of the centreline, and steered back to 2 ft 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.
The 1,441 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Airbus A300 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at John F Kennedy International Airport, taking 18 minutes and covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 22R, with a takeoff distance of 1,260 feet, which was 15% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 160 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 43°F temperature and a wind speed of 12 knots at 230 degrees. The crosswind was 4 knots, while the headwind was 12 knots. The enroute climb started overhead the airport, with the aircraft ascending from 1,060 feet above sea level to 34,734 feet above sea level, an increase of 33,674 feet in 21 minutes, covering a distance of 162 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began at a latitude of 39.0381912 and a longitude of -71.111615, lasting 200 minutes and covering a distance of 1,643 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its descent 20 miles east of Gros Islet, Saint Lucia, descending from 34,548 feet above sea level to 1,994 feet above sea level, a decrease of 32,554 feet in 19 minutes, covering a distance of 118 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise resumed 3 miles southwest of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados, lasting 14 minutes and covering a distance of 33 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 09 at Grantley Adams International Airport took place from the west, with the aircraft heading at 75.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 991 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 09 took place with a runway length of 11,012 feet, and the threshold height was good. The threshold speed was also good at 132 knots, while the touchdown distance was 1,448 feet. The touchdown speed was a little fast at 128 knots, and the touchdown rate was firm at -369 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 19 feet from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 83°F temperature and a wind speed of 13 knots at 99 degrees. The crosswind was 5 knots, while the headwind was 12 knots. The total landing distance was 4,929 feet, which was 45% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good.
The flight concluded with the aircraft taxiing to the parking area from the runway, taking 4 minutes and covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,965 nautical miles, taking a total of 274 minutes, and the aircraft used 49,336 pounds of fuel.
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