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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 138 kt, 5 kt above the 133 kt target, and lifted off at 145 kt 2.3 s later, the nose coming up at 3.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 150 kt, 14 kt under its 164 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 752 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 394 m of runway left; gear up at 98 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,220 fpm on average to 752 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 1,796 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 3.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.3 m left. Airborne 62 % 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 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 100 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, 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 18× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 20 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 34 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 +3 kt and +22 kt on the approach speed of 136 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 aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 3.0° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 513 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 230° at 21 kt · 20 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 47 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 21 ft. Touched down 513 m in, 208 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 340 fpm at the flare to 260 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.8° 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 3,092 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.6 m 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.
Touched down 513 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.30 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 30 at EKVG Vágar Airport in 2 minutes, covering approximately 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 30, the aircraft used 1,122 m of runway, representing 62 % of the available length, and lifted off at 145 kt. Ambient conditions were 12 °C with a wind of 10 kt from 279°, giving a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 9 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced over Sorvagur, rising from 1,083 ft asl to 35,000 ft asl - an altitude gain of 33,917 ft - in 20 minutes while traversing 139 nm.
The first cruise segment began 83 miles north-west of EGPW Unst Airport and continued for 64 minutes, covering 496 nm at level flight.
Descent started 19 miles south-west of Hvide Sande, dropping from 35,010 ft asl to 13,003 ft asl - a loss of 22,007 ft - over 18 minutes and 112 nm.
A brief cruise over Krumstedt lasted 7 minutes and spanned 29 nm.
The subsequent descent began 1 mile south-west of Wischhafen, decreasing altitude from 12,929 ft asl to 12,010 ft asl - a reduction of 919 ft - in 2 minutes while covering 7 nm.
Cruise over Borsfleth continued for 14 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 59 nm at constant altitude.
Descent over Drochtersen reduced altitude from 11,865 ft asl to 11,008 ft asl - a loss of 856 ft - in 2 minutes and 6 nm.
A further cruise segment east of Osten lasted 6 minutes and covered 25 nm.
Descent began 2 miles east of Hammah, falling from 10,972 ft asl to 2,973 ft asl - a decrease of 7,999 ft - in 7 minutes while traveling 31 nm.
The final cruise phase over Sulfeld lasted 4 minutes and encompassed 11 nm.
On final approach to runway 23 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,412 ft agl to 44 ft agl in 112 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate requirements.
Landing on runway 23 was executed with a threshold speed of 146 kt; touchdown occurred 91 m beyond the touchdown zone at 135 kt, with a firm vertical speed of minus 334 fpm. Local weather was 16 °C with a wind of 25 kt from 230°, providing a 25 kt head-wind and no cross-wind. The total landing roll measured 951 m, equivalent to 31 % of the runway length.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as perfect.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking stand in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 922 nm, lasted 156 minutes, and consumed 6,204 kg of fuel.
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