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Departure
Ease the nose up sooner to lift off at 144 kt instead of letting speed build on the ground.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 161 kt, 17 kt above the target liftoff speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 144 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 317 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 425 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 160 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 943 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,673 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,110 fpm on average to 943 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 4,020 m runway.
Rolled from 109 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.7 m left, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 52 % 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 50 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 12× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 31 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 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 −4 kt and +2 kt on the approach speed of 132 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
Very poor landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 249° at 11 kt · 10 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 112 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 26 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 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 1,660 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 901 m in, 596 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 1,660 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 200 fpm at 44 ft to 80 fpm at 10 ft, then back up to 420 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° 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 1,660 m of the 3,075 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 12 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 3.2 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.
Touched down 901 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft taxiing from the parking to the runway at Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport, taking 8 minutes and covering a distance of 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 35L, with a takeoff distance of 1,982 meters, which was 49% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 161 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a height of 32,710 feet, it encountered local weather conditions of 37°C temperature and a wind speed of 8 knots at 240 degrees. The crosswind was 7 knots, while the tailwind was 3 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile south east of Pusignan, France, and covered a distance of 84 nautical miles in 15 minutes.
After reaching the cruising altitude, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted 21 minutes and covered 135 nautical miles. This phase started 1 mile south west of Magnien, France. The aircraft then began its descent from 32,764 feet to 16,414 feet, a decrease of 16,349 feet in 8 minutes, covering 49 nautical miles.
The aircraft entered another level cruise phase, which lasted 5 minutes and covered 34 nautical miles. This phase started 1 mile east of Blangy-Tronville, France. The aircraft then began its descent from 16,263 feet to 10,289 feet, a decrease of 5,974 feet in 3 minutes, covering 21 nautical miles.
The aircraft entered another level cruise phase, which lasted 3 minutes and covered 18 nautical miles. This phase started overhead EBTY Maubray Airfield Péruwelz, Belgium. The aircraft then began its descent from 10,182 feet to 6,408 feet, a decrease of 3,774 feet in 3 minutes, covering 16 nautical miles.
The aircraft entered another level cruise phase, which lasted 2 minutes and covered 8 nautical miles. This phase started overhead Moorsel, Belgium. The aircraft then began its descent from 5,804 feet to 2,025 feet, a decrease of 3,779 feet in 5 minutes, covering 17 nautical miles.
The aircraft entered another level cruise phase, which lasted 4 minutes and covered 9 nautical miles. This phase started overhead Begijnendijk, Belgium. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 25R at Brussels Airport, flying from the north east at a heading of 246.0 degrees and at an altitude of 1,240 feet.
The landing took place on runway 25R, which was 3,075 meters long. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was also good at 130 knots. The touchdown point was 475 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 119 knots, which was good. The touchdown rate was firm at -312 feet per minute.
The total landing distance was 1,569 meters, which was 51% of the runway length. The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 12.1 meters from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 12.3 meters from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxiied to the parking from the runway, taking 2 minutes and covering less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 398 nautical miles, and the flight took 81 minutes. The aircraft used 3,042 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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