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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Speed on the fast side
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,092 m runway.
Rolled from 1,869 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 72 % 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 892 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 582 m of runway left; gear up at 35 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,680 fpm on average to 892 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 five 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 30 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 45× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 8 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 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 +11 kt on the approach speed of 130 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
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 39 ft, 11 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft. Touched down 454 m in, 149 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 400 fpm at the flare to 210 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.0° on the way down. Into the flare at 132 kt, on the 130 kt approach speed, and 124 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 3,092 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.2 m right of the centreline. 6 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 124 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 210° at 18 kt · 16 kt head · 6 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.
The 454 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320ceo departed from runway 23 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport, employing a take-off roll of 2,232 m which represented 72 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 181 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 17 kt from 210°, including a 6 kt cross-wind component and a 16 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced one mile north-west of Hamburg-Nord, where the aircraft accelerated from 990 ft asl to 2,504 ft asl, gaining 1,515 ft in one minute while covering four nautical miles.
Level cruise began one mile south of Lurup and was maintained for five minutes, during which the flight covered twenty-one nautical miles.
Descent was initiated one mile west of Delingsdorf, descending from 2,512 ft asl to 1,364 ft asl, a loss of 1,148 ft over two minutes and a distance of five nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 23 at EDDH reduced altitude from 1,364 ft agl to 65 ft agl in 118 seconds, and the aircraft met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose length is 3,092 m. The threshold height was satisfactory and the threshold speed recorded was 134 kt. Touchdown occurred 454 m down the runway at a speed of 124 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 214 fpm. The touchdown point was offset by 4.4 m from the centreline. Weather at the time remained 16 °C with a wind of 17 kt from 210°, a 6 kt cross-wind and a 16 kt head-wind.
In total, the flight covered 36 nm, took 11 minutes, and consumed 465 kg of fuel.
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