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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Level the wings with coordinated aileron to hold bank angle near zero during the initial climb, starting from 3°.
What happened: Bank angle was elevated during the initial climb and excess bank usually persists into the second climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, wings level with bank angle near zero degrees.
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 1 ft, 10 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.
On a 3° glideslope your sink rate in feet per minute is roughly your groundspeed in knots times five (5.3, strictly). A Cessna 172 at 65 kt groundspeed is coming down at about 345 fpm. An A320 at 140 kt groundspeed is coming down at about 740 fpm. the entire job of the flare is to take that 350 to 750 fpm and reduce it to something in the normal band, in roughly the last five seconds of the flight.
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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, 5 kt below the 143 kt target, and lifted off at 150 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 223 kt, 53 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 354 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 632 m of runway left; gear up at 127 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 800 fpm on average to 354 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 2,489 m runway.
Rolled from 343 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 54 % 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.
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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.0 to 0.4 nm, then not again: fast from 0.4 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 100 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 2.6 nm, then drifted 84 m left between 2.6 and 1.0 nm, then inside the band 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 36 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 0.4 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +13 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 strayed well off the target profile. The flare began at 1 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 461 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 3° of bank.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 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 147 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 23 s, an average deceleration of 0.27 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.
Crossed the threshold at 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 1 ft. Touched down 461 m in, 156 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 1,524 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 stayed between 680 fpm and 690 fpm from the flare to the runway. The pitch barely changed.
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 2,487 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.3 m left of the centreline and drifted to 9.8 m left on 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 461 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.80 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 29 at EPSN Swidwin Military Air Base. Take-off used 1,351 m of runway (54 % of runway) and rotation occurred at 138 kt. Local weather was 17 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 0 kt and headwind 1 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 25 seconds, averaging 749 fpm and reaching 228 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 760 ft asl to 28,968 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 119 nm, beginning about 1 mile north of Swidwin. Level flight was held at 29,000 ft asl for 2 minutes, covering 11 nm, starting about 5 miles east of Skape. Descent from 29,002 ft asl to 1,808 ft asl lasted 22 minutes, covering 125 nm, beginning 1 mile south-west of Golub-Dobrzyn, with brief level-offs at 13,000 ft asl and 4,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 26 at EPMM Minsk Mazowiecki Military Air Base began with a descent from 1,265 ft agl to 103 ft agl in 89 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed and wings level; the centreline check was not met at one gate. The landing gear was lowered at 3,006 ft agl at 269 kt and the final flap position 3 was selected at 2,555 ft agl at 212 kt.
Landing on runway 26 (runway length 2,487 m) had a threshold height of 56 ft agl, slightly above target, and a threshold speed of 151 kt, judged good. The flare was poor, held off too high. Touchdown occurred 49 m beyond the touchdown zone at 146 kt, a little fast, with a heavy rate of -686 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 6.3 m from the centreline. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,092 m (44 % of runway) and the rollout was slightly misaligned by 9.8 m from the centreline.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The flight covered 261 nm in 49 minutes and used 865 kg of fuel.
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