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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 141 kt, 15 kt below the 156 kt target, and lifted off at 161 kt 6.6 s later, the nose coming up at 1.4° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 164 kt target, at 162 kt on average.
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 893 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 622 m of runway left; gear up at 79 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,540 fpm on average to 893 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 1,919 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline. Airborne 52 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.0 nm, about 1,010 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 90 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 730 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.0 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 138 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 2.7 points, for starting the flare at 47 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
6 kt across from the right, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 134 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 349° at 12 kt · 10 kt head · 6 kt across
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 125 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 33 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 1,589 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 47 ft, 76 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 36 ft, 14 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 500 m in, 195 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 1,589 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 440 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° 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 1,589 m of the 2,722 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.6 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.
The 500 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to the departure runway at Wellington International Airport in 15 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 16 at NZWN, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 162 kt. Takeoff was achieved after a ground run of 1,008 m, representing 53 % of the runway length, under local conditions of 11 °C temperature, wind 34 kt from 179°, with a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 34 kt head-wind.
Climb began overhead Wellington, with the A320 ascending from 913 ft asl to 34,010 ft asl, a gain of 33,096 ft in 22 minutes while covering 128 nm.
The first cruise segment started 6 miles south-west of Murchison Airport and continued for 159 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 1,021 nm at level altitude.
Descent commenced 65 miles east of Darlington Airport, the aircraft descending from 34,013 ft asl to 4,036 ft asl, a loss of 29,978 ft in 20 minutes and traversing 109 nm.
A brief level cruise followed, beginning 3 miles north of Dunalley and lasting 2 minutes while covering 6 nm.
The next descent segment started 3 miles north of Murdunna, with altitude decreasing from 3,997 ft asl to 2,608 ft asl, a reduction of 1,389 ft in 3 minutes over 8 nm.
A second short cruise segment began 2 miles south-west of Dunalley, lasting 2 minutes and covering 4 nm.
Subsequent descent began 1 mile east of Primrose Sands, the aircraft dropping from 2,617 ft asl to 958 ft asl, a loss of 1,659 ft in 3 minutes while traveling 6 nm.
Final approach to runway 30 at Hobart International Airport involved a descent from 1,371 ft agl to 51 ft agl in 108 seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 30 was executed with a threshold speed of 141 kt, a touchdown point 73 m beyond the touchdown zone, and a touchdown speed of 134 kt. The aircraft touched down at a rate of minus 213 fpm, with perfect runway alignment, under weather of 12 °C, wind 14 kt from 329°, a 4 kt cross-wind and a 14 kt head-wind. Total landing distance measured 1,497 m, equivalent to 55 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment remained perfect as the aircraft decelerated to a stop.
The A320 taxied from the runway to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,290 nm, required 223 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 9,014 kg of fuel.
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