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Departure
Rotate sooner, bringing the nose up at 152 kt rather than letting speed build further.
What happened: You lifted off at 170 kt against a rotation target of 152 kt, rotating late in the ground roll.
Watch for: Watch airspeed and rotate at the target of 152 kt.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Stop the rotation once the sink is arrested at 0.3 ft, holding the normal landing attitude instead of continuing to pull back.
What happened: The flare pitch reached 2.4°, well above this type's ground attitude, and touchdown followed at a sink rate of 332 fpm. Over-rotating the flare like this usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold the normal landing attitude once sink is arrested at 0.3 ft.
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 169 kt with 7.2° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 181 kt, 11 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 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 902 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 273 m of runway left; gear up at 53 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,950 fpm on average to 902 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 3,291 m runway.
Rolled from 77 m in, drifted 3.5 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 80 % of the way down the runway, past 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.
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 10 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +3 kt and +4 kt on the approach speed of 140 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. Pitch reached 9.8° at touchdown, well above this type's ground attitude. Touchdown was 513 m past the threshold. That is tail strike territory - stop the rotation once the sink is arrested.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt tail · 1 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 58 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 23 ft. Touched down 513 m in, 208 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 went from 480 fpm at the flare to 330 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.4° 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 3,299 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.2 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 513 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.35 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320 taxied from the parking area to runway 06 at FZAA Ndjili International Airport, a movement that lasted 8 minutes and covered 2 nm.
The departure roll on runway 06 accelerated the aircraft to a liftoff speed of 170 kt, using a takeoff distance of 2,625 m (80 % of the runway). Local weather was temperature 19 °C, wind 2 kt from 269 °, crosswind 1 kt and tailwind 2 kt.
Climb commenced about 1 mile north-east of FZAA, with the A320 climbing from 2,023 ft asl to 6,009 ft asl, an altitude gain of 3,986 ft achieved in 3 minutes while covering 13 nm.
Descent began roughly 3 miles south of Kinshasa, descending from 6,010 ft asl to 2,375 ft asl, a loss of 3,635 ft over 4 minutes and a distance of 16 nm.
The final approach to runway 05 at FCBB Maya-Maya Airport was flown from the south-west on a heading of 50.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,326 ft agl.
Touchdown occurred on runway 05, whose length is 3,294 m; the threshold height of 58 ft agl and threshold speed of 144 kt were slightly above target. The aircraft contacted the runway 98 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 136 kt, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 371 fpm and very good alignment. Local weather at the time was temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270 °, crosswind 1 kt and tailwind 2 kt.
The total landing distance recorded was 1,159 m, representing 35 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment remained very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a distance of 38 nm, required 16 (as reported) and consumed 684 kg of fuel.
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