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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 35°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early, and slowly
The nose came up at 120 kt, 24 kt before the 144 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.3° a second, slower than the 1.8 to 2.9 other Airbus A321neo pilots fly.
The nose started up before the rotate speed and then came up slowly, as if easing it off early. Wait for the rotate speed, then make one steady pull at the normal rate for this aircraft.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,440 m runway.
Rolled from 35 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.3 m left, in 8 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 30 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 986 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,422 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,220 fpm on average to 986 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 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 1.8 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A321neo pilots over the last 180 days (45 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 9.7°, 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.9 to 0.4 nm, then not again: low from 0.4 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.
Why this is not a circuit
Off and back onto LIRN, scored as a flight. A circuit passes all five:
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3.3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 70 ft under).
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: 3.3° here, which is about 350 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 387 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.4 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.1 nm, then slow to 0.9 nm (up to −8 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 27 ft, 101 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 15 ft, 35 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 356 m in, 51 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 600 fpm at the flare to 250 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.1° on the way down. Into the flare at 130 kt, on the 128 kt approach speed, and 118 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 2,440 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 5.2 m left on the rollout. 9 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 118 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, 2.2° of bank.
Wind 199° at 15 kt · 11 kt head · 9 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 356 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 108 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 15 s, an average deceleration of 0.27 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 A321neo departed from runway 24 at LIRN Naples International Airport. Take-off was performed after a roll of 750 m, which was 31 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 120 kt. Local weather at departure was 22 °C with wind 16 kt from 199°, giving a 10 kt crosswind component and a 12 kt headwind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 24 seconds, averaging 2,256 fpm and reaching 192 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 1,266 ft asl to 3,796 ft asl in 2 minutes while covering 9 nm, passing overhead Vicaria.
During descent the aircraft reduced altitude from 3,776 ft asl to 1,091 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 11 nm, beginning the descent 1 mile north-east of Gricignano di Aversa.
On final approach to runway 24 at LIRN, descent continued from 1,041 ft agl to -67 ft agl in 111 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 2,079 ft agl at 160 kt; the final flap position 4 was selected at 2,836 ft agl at 177 kt.
Landing was made on runway 24, whose length is 2,440 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 128 kt, described as good. The flare was noted as perfect. Touchdown occurred 356 m down the runway at 118 kt, a good speed, with a touchdown rate of minus 254 fpm, described as fair. Alignment on touchdown was very good and no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 845 m, 35 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 21 °C with wind 8 kt from 199°, giving a 5 kt crosswind component and a 7 kt headwind component.
The flight covered 26 nm in 9 minutes and consumed 474 kg of fuel.
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