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Arrival
Wait for the normal flare band and the correct speed before raising the nose, rather than starting the flare at 78 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 78 ft, 33 ft above the normal band, and the touchdown followed at 507 fpm. Starting the flare this early usually carries through to a firmer arrival than a flare begun in the normal band.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: hold the flare start within the normal flare band
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 141 kt, 12 kt before the 153 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,134 m runway.
Rolled from 106 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 7.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.4 m left. Airborne 78 % of the way down the runway, past 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 906 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 107 m of runway left; gear up at 78 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,190 fpm on average to 906 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 2.1 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A320ceo pilots over the last 180 days (230 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 35 kt above the approach speed of 139 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.6 nm, about 870 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 5 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.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.6 nm (up to +50 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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 mostly held the target profile
The flare began at 78 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 554 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 78 ft, 35 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 72 ft, 22 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 554 m in, 249 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 690 fpm at the flare to 240 fpm at 19 ft, then back up to 510 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° on the way down. Into the flare at 142 kt, 3 kt over the 139 kt approach speed, and 141 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 2,544 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.2 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 9.2 m right at the widest.
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.
Touched down 554 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 507 fpm arrival was firm.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 133 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 18 s, an average deceleration of 0.30 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-ceo departed from runway 36 at KAEX Alexandria International Airport. The take-off roll used 1,655 m, 78 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 141 kt. Local weather was 20 °C with wind 7 kt from 239°, a 6 kt crosswind and a 5 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 22 seconds, averaging 2,074 fpm and reaching 167 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,065 ft asl to 13,985 ft asl in 6 minutes, covering 26 nm, beginning about 1 mile north of KAEX. Level flight at 14,000 ft asl continued for 5 minutes, covering 31 nm, starting roughly 3 miles west of KDOJ Colfax Airport.
Descent began from 13,722 ft asl and proceeded to 1,595 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 58 nm, with a brief level-off at 3,000 ft asl. The final approach to runway 14 at KSHV Shreveport Regional Airport descended from 1,357 ft agl to 100 ft agl in 87 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; the speed check was not met at one gate. Gear was lowered at 2,238 ft agl at 223 kt and final flap 5 was selected at 1,039 ft agl at 179 kt.
Landing on runway 14 occurred with a threshold height of 73 ft agl, above target, and a threshold speed of 142 kt, described as good. The flare was very good and started early. Touchdown was 461 m beyond the touchdown zone, at 141 kt, a little fast, with a very hard rate of -507 fpm. The touchdown point was 7.2 m off the centreline but no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,419 m, 56 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 123 nm in 34 minutes and used 1,306 kg of fuel.
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