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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Rotate the moment the speed tape reaches 153 kt, not after it.
What happened: Rotation was held until 166 kt, 13 kt past the 153 kt rotation target. Carrying that much extra speed into rotation usually adds unwanted energy right at liftoff.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the 153 kt rotation target.
Arrival
Apply small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to keep the deviation within 15 m.
What happened: During rollout the aircraft drifted off the runway centreline, reaching a maximum deviation of 15 m.
Watch for: Runway centreline position, staying within 15 m of centreline.
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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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,211 m runway.
Rolled from 42 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 5.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.6 m right, in 15 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 69 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 943 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 695 m of runway left; gear up at 255 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,000 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
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 20 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 24× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 15 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 34 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 −2 kt and +3 kt on the approach speed of 136 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
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 at 26 ft. Touched down 544 m in, 239 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 620 fpm at the flare to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.1° on the way down. Into the flare at 135 kt, on the 136 kt approach speed, and 129 kt at touchdown.
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 2,740 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.6 m left of the centreline and drifted to 13 m left on the rollout. 7 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 129 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 180° at 8 kt · 0 kt head · 7 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 544 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 134 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 36 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320 taxied from the parking area to runway 08R at KMIA Miami International Airport, covering 9 nm in 15 minutes.
During the departure roll on runway 08R, the aircraft used 2,224 m of runway, representing 69 % of the available length, and lifted off at 167 kt. Local weather at the time was 36 °C with a wind of 21 kt from 160 °, a cross-wind component of 20 kt and a head-wind component of 6 kt.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile south-west of Brownsville, Florida, with the A320 ascending from 1,014 ft asl to 34,125 ft asl, an increase of 33,111 ft achieved in 17 minutes while covering 111 nm.
Level cruise began about 4 miles south-west of Marco Island, Florida, and persisted for 87 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 651 nm.
Descent was initiated roughly 18 miles south-west of the LA12 Louisiana State Police Troop B Helipad Heliport Kenner, with altitude decreasing from 33,849 ft asl to 1,387 ft asl, a loss of 32,462 ft over 25 minutes and a distance of 128 nm.
The final approach to runway 26R at KIAH George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport was flown from the east, on a heading of 270.0 °, at 4 nm and 1,286 ft agl. Weather at the destination was 35 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 180 °, a cross-wind of 5 kt and no head-wind.
Landing on runway 26R, which is 2,740 m long, occurred with a threshold height of 57 ft agl slightly above target and a threshold speed of 136 kt. Touchdown was recorded 131 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 129 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 150 fpm, and the aircraft was laterally offset by 3.6 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,230 m, representing 45 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s alignment on the runway was misaligned by 15.0 m from the centreline.
After landing, the A320 taxied to the parking area, traveling 3 nm in 13 minutes.
In total, the flight covered 908 nm, required 152 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 5,557 kg of fuel.
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