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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 2.3° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 12° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 133 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 143 kt, 10 kt above the 133 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 133 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
Below a thousand feet the aeroplane is slow, heavy and close to the ground. A steep turn loses lift, raises the stall speed and flattens the climb just when the gradient matters most. A normal turn on course is a rate one — fifteen degrees or so, twenty-five at the outside, this penalty is to acknowledge when a turn has stopped being a turn and become a manoeuvre.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 153 kt with 6.7° of pitch.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 637 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,192 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,370 fpm on average to 637 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 10,480 ft runway.
Rolled from 512 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 19 ft at the widest, and lifted off 20 ft right, in 20 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 56 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 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 50 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, 1,000 ft 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 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 40 ft 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 +8 kt and +12 kt on the approach speed of 133 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 159° at 13 kt · 13 kt head · 1 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 127 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.24 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 42 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,437 ft in, 437 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 530 fpm at 42 ft to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.1° 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 5,000 ft of the 9,523 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7 ft left of the centreline, and stayed within 8 ft of it down 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 1,437 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 34 minutes and covered a distance of 6 nautical miles. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, then departed from runway 08R at Miami International Airport (KMIA). The takeoff distance was 5,854 feet, which accounted for 56% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 153 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 82°F temperature and a wind speed of 22 knots at 160°. The crosswind was 21 knots, while the headwind was 7 knots. The enroute climb started approximately 1 mile southwest of Brownsville, Florida, and involved a significant ascent from 717 feet above sea level to 32,919 feet above sea level, an increase of 32,202 feet in just 21 minutes. This climb covered a distance of 154 nautical miles.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 53 miles north of Las Brujas Airport in Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba. This cruise phase lasted for 124 minutes and covered a distance of 960 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, this time from 33,435 feet above sea level to 34,437 feet above sea level, an increase of 1,002 feet in just 2 minutes. This climb covered a distance of 13 nautical miles and occurred 25 miles east of Pedasi in Panama.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 29 miles southeast of Pedasi and lasted for 140 minutes. This cruise phase covered a distance of 1,069 nautical miles. As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its descent from 35,002 feet above sea level to 2,082 feet above sea level, a decrease of 32,920 feet in just 20 minutes. This descent covered a distance of 110 nautical miles and started 13 miles southeast of Huarmey in Peru.
The final approach to runway 16L at Jorge Chavez International Airport (SPJC) was made from the northwest, heading 154.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,300 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 16L was successful, with a touchdown distance of 1,444 feet and a touchdown speed of 138 knots, which was slightly above the target speed. The touchdown rate was good at -178 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 75°F temperature and a wind speed of 13 knots at 160°. The crosswind was 1 knot, while the headwind was 13 knots. The total landing distance was 4,057 feet, which accounted for 43% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was perfect, and the aircraft then began taxiing to the parking, which took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 2,324 nautical miles and lasted for 342 minutes. The aircraft used 60,126 pounds of fuel during the flight.
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