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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Reduce power on approach to bring threshold speed back to 123 kt.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 140 kt, 17 kt above the 123 kt target, then ballooned in the flare as the excess speed met the flare's back pressure. Crossing fast and ballooning like this usually carries the touchdown long.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 123 kt at the threshold
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 22 stages, 20 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 145 kt against the 140 kt rotate speed, the nose rising at 2.2° a second, then held 12.4° from 11 m, within 0.9° top to bottom.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,882 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 4.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.3 m left. 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 234 m.
Reached 11 m with 607 m of runway left; gear up at 78 m, inside the 122 m that gets full marks; then climbing at 11.1 m/s on average to 234 m.
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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. 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 11 m, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 11 m, 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 2.1 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A320ceo pilots over the last 180 days (230 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 11.7°, 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 305 m and 152 m above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 305 m gate: speed more than 31 kt above the approach speed of 123 kt.
At the 152 m gate: speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 123 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way.
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 3.0 m/s, 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 15 m 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 98 m for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 15 m. 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 3 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 31 kt fast at the 305 m gate, closing to 18 at 152 m and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +53 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
The flare wandered off the target profile
Crossing the threshold 17 kt above target, the flare ballooned 2.7 m agl back up from 5.9 m agl above the runway, 559 m in. Touchdown was 1,184 m past the threshold. Hold the attitude and let it settle rather than pushing - that excess speed is what turns a normal flare into a balloon, so the fix is on the approach, not in the flare.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,868 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 15 m, close to the 15 m target; began the flare at 10 m; ballooned 3 m from 6 m. Touched down 1,184 m in, 879 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: 24 m top to bottom, against 1,868 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 15 m 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 0.9 m/s before coming down at 1.1 m/s to touch. The nose came up 3.5° on the way down. Into the flare at 139 kt, 16 kt over the 123 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 −3 is 3 m a second 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 1,868 m of the 2,791 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.1 m left of the centreline and drifted to 14 m right on the rollout. 5 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 118 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 099° at 9 kt · 7 kt head · 5 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.
Touched down 1,184 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 114 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 34 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at Bristol Airport in 9 minutes, covering approximately 1 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 27, achieving a takeoff distance of 1,006 m (53 % of the runway) and lifting off at 157 kt. Ambient conditions were 19 °C with a wind of 12 kt from 240°, including a 5 kt cross-wind component and an 11 kt head-wind component.
The first climb began 1 mile north-east of Wrington, rising from 438 m asl to 1,400 m asl - an increase of 961.4 m - in 1 minute while covering 4 nm.
A subsequent climb started overhead Tickenham, ascending from 1,222 m asl to 10,671 m asl, a gain of 9,448.9 m achieved in 15 minutes over a distance of 96 nm.
The initial cruise segment was established 1 mile south-west of Singleton, lasting 85 minutes and encompassing 639 nm.
The first descent commenced 1 mile south of Kingston Seymour, descending from 1,398 m asl to 1,223 m asl - a loss of 175.2 m - in 2 minutes while covering 7 nm.
A second descent began 45 miles south of Castelldefels, dropping from 10,570 m asl to 8,222 m asl, a decrease of 2,348.4 m in 5 minutes and spanning 37 nm.
The next cruise phase originated 14 miles north-west of Banyalbufar, lasting 2 minutes and covering 12 nm.
The third descent started 3 miles north-west of Estellencs, falling from 8,232 m asl to 1,222 m asl - a loss of 7,010.4 m - in 15 minutes over 86 nm.
A brief cruise followed 11 miles west of La Savina, lasting 3 minutes and covering 12 nm.
The fourth descent began 19 miles south-west of Es Cubells, descending from 1,222 m asl to 810 m asl, a reduction of 411.4 m in 2 minutes across 6 nm.
The final cruise segment was established 13 miles south-west of Es Cubells, lasting 4 minutes and covering 13 nm.
During final approach to runway 06 at Ibiza Airport, the aircraft approached from the south-west on a heading of 62.0° at 4 nm and 386.7 m agl.
The landing on runway 06 (length 2,791 m) recorded a threshold speed of 140 kt, with touchdown occurring 765 m beyond the touchdown zone at 118 kt and a smooth touchdown rate of minus 0.7 m/s. Alignment at touchdown was very good; local weather was 31 °C with a wind of 9 kt from 99°, a 5 kt cross-wind and a 7 kt head-wind. Total landing distance was 1,785 m (64 % of runway), and the rollout was offset 15.0 m from the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 920 nm, lasted 145 (units as reported), and consumed 5,323 kg of fuel.
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