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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 170 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 82 kt fast at 252 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 170 kt in the climb
Arrival
Close the throttles earlier on final so you cross the threshold at 140 kt rather than carrying excess speed.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 152 kt, 12 kt above the 140 kt target, and the nose was then only raised 0.8° in the flare, taking out little of the sink. Crossing the threshold fast like this usually carries extra energy into a flare that barely arrests the sink, and that combination usually ends in a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 140 kt at the threshold.
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
A slow rotation
The nose came up at 138 kt against the 142 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.9° a second, slower than the 2.0 to 3.0 other Airbus A320neo pilots fly.
The rotation started on speed but the nose came up slowly. Make it one positive, continuous pull at the normal rate for this aircraft, rather than easing the nose up in steps.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,476 m runway.
Rolled from 72 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.6 m left. Airborne 42 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 969 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 980 m of runway left; gear up at 154 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,330 fpm on average to 969 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 2.0 to 3.0° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A320neo pilots over the last 180 days (154 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 11.7°, 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.
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 1.0 nm, then not again: fast from 1.0 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 120 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 16 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 from 4 nm to 1.0 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +18 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
The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.8° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 303 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 52 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 36 ft. Touched down 303 m in, close to 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 900 fpm at the flare to 600 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° on the way down. Into the flare at 152 kt, 12 kt over the 140 kt approach speed, and 149 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 2,952 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.4 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 2.5 m of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 269° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 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 303 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 600 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 05 at LFKF Figari Sud-Corse Airport. Take-off distance was 1,038 m (42 % of runway) and rotation occurred at 138 kt. Local weather was 18 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt and tailwind 1 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 41 seconds, averaging 1,310 fpm and reaching 249 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,106 ft asl to 12,407 ft asl in 3 minutes, covering 16 nm while 2 mi west of Sotta.
Cruise was level at 13,000 ft asl for 18 minutes, covering 116 nm and beginning 3 mi east of Zonza. Descent from 12,998 ft asl to 4,003 ft asl took 5 minutes over 26 nm, starting 33 mi south of Santo Stefano al Mare. A further level segment at 4,000 ft asl lasted 9 minutes, covering 38 nm and beginning 19 mi south-east of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. The next descent from 3,454 ft asl to 1,442 ft asl was completed in 2 minutes over 7 nm, starting 2 mi south of Cannes.
Final approach to runway 04R at LFMN Nice-Côte d’Azur Airport began with a descent from 1,472 ft agl to 84 ft agl in 88 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level.
Landing was on runway 04R (runway length 2,952 m). The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 153 kt. The flare was described as a fair landing flare with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 303 m down the runway at 149 kt, a little fast, with a heavy touchdown rate of minus 600 fpm. Alignment at touchdown was very good and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 930 m (31 % of runway) and rollout alignment was perfect.
Local weather at landing was 18 °C with wind 1 kt from 269°, crosswind 1 kt and tailwind 1 kt. The total flight covered 210 nm in 41 minutes and used 700 kg of fuel.
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