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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 474 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Take the power back earlier on final, so the aircraft settles onto the path and the speed comes back to 130 kt together. Do not push down for the height: that only adds speed.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 127 ft agl, 77 ft agl above the 50 ft agl target, and at 173 kt, 43 kt over the 130 kt threshold speed. High and fast together is energy the runway has to absorb, and this touchdown came 5,350 ft beyond the aim point.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 130 kt on short final, then 50 ft agl over the threshold
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated late, and quickly
The nose came up at 150 kt, 7 kt after the 143 kt rotate speed, and rose at 2.9° a second, faster than the 1.9 to 2.7 other Airbus A319 pilots fly.
The pull started late and then came quickly, as if to make up the time. Start it on the rotate speed instead, so there is nothing to catch up, and keep it to the normal rate for this aircraft.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 9,486 ft runway.
Rolled from 408 ft in, drifted 19 ft left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 58 % 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 794 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,083 ft of runway left; gear up at 474 ft, 74 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,950 fpm on average to 794 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. 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 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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. 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.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 1.9 to 2.7° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A319 pilots over the last 180 days (50 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 13.9°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 130 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, sinking too fast until 1.4 nm, banked from 0.5 nm, right of the centreline from 0.4 nm and high from 0.3 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.
On the glideslope from 3.9 nm, where the final began, to 0.3 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 210 ft over).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 9,740 ft left of the centreline at 3.9 nm, then 320 ft right of it from 0.4 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.
Fast from 3.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +58 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
The flare wandered off the target profile
Crossing the threshold 43 kt above target, the flare began at 1 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 6,850 ft past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 8,778 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 126 ft, 76 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 1 ft. Touched down 6,850 ft in, 5,850 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 8,778 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 370 fpm and 390 fpm from the flare to the runway. The nose came up 0.6° on the way down. Into the flare at 162 kt, 32 kt over the 130 kt approach speed, and 162 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 8,778 ft of the 10,454 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 359 ft right of the centreline, and steered back to 69 ft right by the end of the rollout. 21 kt across from the left, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 162 kt. Touched down with the nose 9° into wind, 7.1° of bank.
Wind 354° at 21 kt · 2 kt tail · 21 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 6,850 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.80 G arrival bounced.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 175 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 18 s, an average deceleration of 0.41 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 A319 taxied from the parking area to runway 32L at KOMA Eppley Airfield for 11 minutes, covering 2 nm. Take-off was performed on runway 32L with a takeoff distance of 5,576 ft, which was 59 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 150 kt. The local weather at departure was temperature 56 °F, wind 8 kt from 176°, with a 4 kt crosswind and a 7 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 14 seconds, averaging 2,597 fpm and reaching 158 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,982 ft asl to 37,383 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 151 nm, beginning 1 mile north of Carter Lake and including brief level-offs at 23,200 ft asl and 35,500 ft asl.
Descent from 37,284 ft asl to 20,386 ft asl occurred over 16 minutes and 113 nm, starting 3 miles north-west of 81NE Bunger Field Hildreth, with brief level-offs at 24,500 ft asl, 23,600 ft asl and 23,000 ft asl. A subsequent climb from 20,234 ft asl to 27,117 ft asl lasted 5 minutes over 33 nm, beginning 7 miles north of Brewster.
The aircraft then descended from 27,237 ft asl to 7,153 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 158 nm, starting 10 miles east of Burlington. Level flight at 6,900 ft asl was held for 8 minutes over 26 nm, beginning 1 mile west of Pueblo. A further descent from 6,787 ft asl to 4,717 ft asl took 2 minutes and 8 nm, starting 3 miles east of Pueblo West.
Final approach to runway 08R at KPUB Pueblo Memorial Airport began with a descent from 1,124 ft agl to 48 ft agl in 71 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, and glideslope, but not met for sink rate and speed. Configuration on final was flap position 4 at 1,525 ft agl with an airspeed of 200 kt.
Landing on runway 08R, which is 10,454 ft long, occurred with a threshold height of 127 ft agl and a threshold speed of 173 kt, both noted as excessively over target. The flare was described as a fair landing flare that started late. Touchdown was very long, using more than 50 % of the available runway, at a speed of 162 kt, which was too fast, and a firm rate of -386 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 359 ft from the centreline. One bounce occurred on touchdown. Total landing distance was 7,167 ft, representing 69 % of the runway, and the rollout was misaligned by 397 ft from the centreline.
Local weather at landing was temperature 45 °F, wind 21 kt from 354°, with a 21 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 498 nm in 86 minutes and used 9,679 lb of fuel.
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