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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 21°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Adjust your approach path so you touch down at the 457 m aim point instead of beyond it.
What happened: Touchdown point came 165 m past the target, landing at 622 m against the 457 m aim point. Landings that touch down this far beyond the aim point typically leave less runway available for stopping.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 131 kt with 8.8° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 154 kt, 10 kt under its 164 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 579 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,067 m of runway left; gear up at 18 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,870 fpm on average to 579 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 3,037 m runway.
Rolled from 1,270 m in, drifted 5.1 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.7 nm, about 1,300 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 265 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.7 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 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 +1 kt and +5 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
The flare tracked the target profile exactly. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 622 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 40 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 16 ft. Touched down 622 m in, 317 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 590 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.2° 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 3,037 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.1 m right of the centreline.
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 622 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied to runway 07 at EDDS Stuttgart Airport and departed with a takeoff distance of 1,645 m (54 % of runway). Liftoff occurred at 131 kt. Local weather was 17 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 0 kt and tailwind 1 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 16 seconds, averaging 1,609 fpm and reaching 154 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 2,166 ft asl to 3,337 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 3 nm, starting 1 mile west of Neuhausen auf den Fildern. Level flight was maintained at 3,300 ft asl for 2 minutes, covering 8 nm over Filderstadt.
During the first final approach to runway 07, descent was from 1,670 ft agl to 443 ft agl in 103 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration was final flap position 3 at 32 ft agl, speed 123 kt.
A go-around was executed on runway 07 at 368 ft agl.
On the subsequent final approach to runway 07, descent was from 1,804 ft agl to 429 ft agl in 103 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were again met with the same configuration: final flap position 3 at 32 ft agl, speed 123 kt.
Landing was on runway 07, which is 3,037 m long, with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 132 kt. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 201 m beyond the touchdown zone at 123 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 155 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.1 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 16 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 0 kt and tailwind 1 kt. No bounce was observed.
The total flight covered 34 nm, lasted 11 minutes and used 482 kg of fuel.
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