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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 15 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 286 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 286 fpm next time
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 160 kt, on the 162 kt target, and lifted off at 175 kt 3.9 s later, the nose coming up at 1.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 209 kt, 35 kt over its 174 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 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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 945 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 333 m of runway left; gear up at 186 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,670 fpm on average to 945 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 2,457 m runway.
Rolled from 118 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 15 m at the widest, and lifted off 17 m left. Airborne 71 % 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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 135 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.5 to 0.5 nm, then not again: slow from 0.5 nm and low from 0.2 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 4 nm to 0.2 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 50 ft under).
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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 29 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 from 4 nm to 1.8 nm, then slow to 1.5 nm (up to −5 kt), then inside the band to 0.5 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −6 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.7 points, mostly for touching down 6.2° above the aircraft's ground attitude.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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.
From 143 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.28 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.
Side view — the last 1,582 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 21 ft. Touched down 599 m in, 294 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 1,582 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 10 fpm at 10 ft, then back up to 290 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.6° 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 1,582 m of the 3,459 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 9.3 m left on the rollout.
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 599 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321neo taxied from the parking area to runway 01 at MMOX Aeropuerto Internacional Xoxocotlán, a movement that lasted 6 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 01 with a distance of 1,704 m, representing 69 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 160 kt. Local weather at departure was 23 °C, wind 3 kt from 360°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 18 seconds, averaging 2,612 fpm and reaching 217 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 6,046 ft asl to 27,978 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 92 nm while passing overhead San Agustin de las Juntas.
Cruise was maintained at 28,000 ft asl for 10 minutes, covering 78 nm, beginning 1 mile north-east of Cosoltepec.
Descent began from 27,977 ft asl to 12,003 ft asl in 11 minutes, covering 82 nm, starting 1 mile south-east of Amecameca, with a brief level-off at 26,000 ft asl.
A climb from 11,991 ft asl to 14,597 ft asl followed, lasting 3 minutes and covering 16 nm, starting 4 miles south of Yautepec.
The next descent from 14,612 ft asl to 11,713 ft asl took 5 minutes over 18 nm, beginning overhead Tlalnepantla.
A climb from 11,746 ft asl to 12,454 ft asl lasted 2 minutes and covered 6 nm, starting 4 miles north of Tlalnepantla.
Level flight at 12,400 ft asl continued for 2 minutes, covering 5 nm, beginning overhead San Pedro Atocpan.
Descent from 11,864 ft asl to 8,709 ft asl took 3 minutes, covering 13 nm, starting overhead Xochimilco.
Final approach to runway 05L at MMMX Benito Juárez International Airport began at 1,442 ft agl and descended to 26 ft agl in 93 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, and wings level; speed was not met at one gate. Configuration on final was gear down at 1,443 ft agl and 204 kt, with landing flap position 9 at 1,435 ft agl and 179 kt.
Landing occurred on runway 05L, whose length is 3,459 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 130 kt, described as good. The flare was noted as excellent. Touchdown was 185 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 125 kt (good) and a rate of -286 fpm (fair). Runway-touchdown alignment was perfect. Local weather at landing was 17 °C, wind 0 kt from 360°, with no crosswind or headwind. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,504 m, representing 43 % of the runway. Rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 10.7 m.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 6 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 318 nm in 60 minutes and consumed 3,142 kg of fuel.
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