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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 170 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 69 kt fast at 239 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 170 kt in the climb
Arrival
Wait for the normal flare band and the correct speed before raising the nose, rather than starting the flare at 90 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 90 ft, 45 ft above the normal band, and the touchdown followed at 750 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.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 17 stages, 15 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 127 kt, 14 kt below the 141 kt target, and lifted off at 150 kt 4.3 s later, the nose coming up at 1.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 239 kt, 69 kt over 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 843 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 248 m of runway left; gear up at 132 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,280 fpm on average to 843 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 1,991 m runway.
Rolled from 268 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.7 m left. Airborne 63 % 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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 3.0 nm, then not again: fast from 0.8 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 10 ft below 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.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 3.0 nm, then drifted 109 m left between 3.0 and 0.4 nm, then inside the band from 0.4 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +17 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 mostly held the target profile. The flare began at 90 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 236 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 269° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 0 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 147 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.37 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 90 ft, 263 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 236 m in, 69 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 2,380 fpm at the flare to 750 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.0° 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 2,495 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 10 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 10 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 236 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.99 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 01 at EPSY Olsztyn-Mazury Airport. Take-off used 1,266 m of runway (64 % of runway) and rotation occurred at 127 kt. Local weather was 17 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt and headwind 0 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 37 seconds, averaging 1,115 fpm and reaching 249 kt at the top. The climb continued from 1,379 ft asl to 13,974 ft asl in 5 minutes, covering 29 nm, beginning 2 nm south of Szczytno. Level cruise at 14,000 ft asl was held for 6 minutes, covering 43 nm, starting 2 nm south-east of EPOD Lotnisko Olsztyn-Dajtki Olsztyn. Descent from 14,003 ft asl to 1,445 ft asl took 13 minutes over 58 nm, beginning 3 nm south-west of Wysoka, with a brief level-off at 2,500 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 31 at EPOK Oksywie Military Air Base descended from 1,339 ft agl to 73 ft agl in 89 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed and wings level; the centreline check was not met at one gate. Configuration on final was flap position 2 at 2,113 ft agl with 235 kt.
Landing on runway 31 (runway length 2,495 m) had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly above target at 150 kt. The flare was described as very good, starting early. Touchdown occurred 235 m from the threshold at 147 kt, a little fast, with a very heavy rate of -751 fpm. Touchdown position was misaligned by 10.2 m from the centreline; no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 837 m (34 % of runway) and rollout alignment was slightly off by 8.6 m from the centreline.
Taxiing from the runway to parking took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 137 nm in 29 minutes, using 488 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 15 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt and headwind 1 kt.
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