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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 634 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Wait for the normal flare band and the correct speed before raising the nose, rather than starting the flare at 69 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 69 ft, 24 ft above the normal band, and the touchdown followed at 690 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
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 162 kt, 13 kt above the 149 kt target, and lifted off at 166 kt 2.1 s later, the nose coming up at 3.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 163 kt, 7 kt under its 170 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 924 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,606 m of runway left; gear up at 634 ft, 234 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,950 fpm on average to 924 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 3,986 m runway.
Rolled from 156 m in, drifted 11 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 53 % 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.
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 3.4 nm, about 1,510 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the glideslope.
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.
High from 4 nm to 3.4 nm (up to 470 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 2 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 −5 kt and +6 kt on the approach speed of 131 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
The flare wandered off the target profile. The flare began at 69 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 125 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
4 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 127 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 049° at 7 kt · 6 kt head · 4 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 121 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.36 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 69 ft, 181 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 125 m in, 180 m short of 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 690 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.2° 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 1,524 m of the 2,000 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.9 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 5.4 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 125 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 690 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo taxied from the parking area to runway 25C at EDDF Frankfurt Airport in 14 minutes, covering approximately 1 nm.
During the departure roll the aircraft accelerated along runway 25C, achieving a takeoff distance of 2,137 m (54 % of the runway) and lifting off at 166 kt; ambient temperature was 21 °C with wind 12 kt from 232°, a 4 kt cross-wind component and a 12 kt head-wind.
Climb commenced 1 mile south of Kelsterbach, rising from 1,319 ft asl to 38,697 ft asl-a gain of 37,378 ft-over 20 minutes while traversing 125 nm.
The first cruise segment began overhead EDVK Kassel Airport Calden and continued for 134 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 1,006 nm at level flight.
Descent started 15 miles south-west of Kjopsvik, Norway, descending from 39,006 ft asl to 5,575 ft asl, a loss of 33,431 ft in 17 minutes and over a distance of 106 nm.
A brief cruise phase followed 11 miles east of Gibostad, lasting 2 minutes and adding 6 nm to the flight path.
Subsequent descent began 12 miles south of Tromsø, descending from 4,999 ft asl to 1,755 ft asl, a reduction of 3,244 ft in 4 minutes while covering 10 nm.
On final approach to runway 36 at ENTC Tromsø Airport, Langnes, the aircraft descended from 1,795 ft agl to 34 ft agl in 113 seconds and was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 36 was executed with a threshold speed of 128 kt; touchdown occurred 124 m down the runway at 127 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 755 fpm and very good alignment, while local conditions were 8 °C, wind 6 kt from 50°, a 4 kt cross-wind and a 5 kt head-wind. The total landing distance measured 572 m, representing 29 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was noted as very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 1,260 nm, lasted 185 minutes, and consumed 5,959 kg of fuel.
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