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Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 168 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 26 kt fast at 194 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 168 kt in the climb
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.
Trim is the hidden variable. In trim, the flare is a small refinement to an aircraft already in equilibrium, a couple of millimetres of stick. Out of trim, you're holding a constant force all the way down final, and the flare becomes a large, badly judged movement stacked on top of a load you're already carrying. A striking proportion of "I can't judge the flare" complaints are trim complaints wearing a disguise. If you're holding pressure at 500 feet, fix that before you practise anything else.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 132 kt, 6 kt above the 126 kt target, and lifted off at 162 kt 4.1 s later, the nose coming up at 0.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 194 kt, 26 kt over its 168 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 1,040 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,510 m of runway left; gear up at 415 ft, 15 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,900 fpm on average to 1,040 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 3,741 m runway.
Rolled from 89 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.7 m left. Airborne 24 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.9 nm, about 480 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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.
Low from 4 nm to 2.8 nm (up to 630 ft under), then back on it to the threshold.
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.
Joined 1,293 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 1.9 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 30 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +2 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 120 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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.0° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 554 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 116 kt. Touched down with the nose 2° into wind, wings level.
Wind 089° at 5 kt · 3 kt head · 3 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 111 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 27 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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.
Crossed the threshold at 58 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 23 ft. Touched down 554 m in, 249 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 400 fpm at the flare to 190 fpm at 8 ft, then back up to 330 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 3,741 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 6.6 m left on the rollout, back to 1.6 m left by the end.
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.
Touched down 554 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 327 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321ceo departed from runway 13L at LHBP Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport. Takeoff was performed with a rotation speed of 132 kt and a takeoff distance of 902 m (24 % of runway). Local weather at departure was temperature 11 °C, wind 7 kt from 090° (crosswind 5 kt, headwind 5 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 30 seconds, averaging 1,644 fpm and reaching 190 kt at the top. The climb continued from 1,131 ft asl to 2,929 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 3 nm, passing overhead Vecses. Level flight was held at 2,400 ft asl for 3 minutes, covering 10 nm and passing overhead Ecser. Descent from 2,112 ft asl to 1,124 ft asl took 2 minutes over 5 nm, beginning 1 mile east of Zuglo.
On final approach to runway 13L at LHBP, descent from 724 ft agl to 104 ft agl occurred in 118 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway all stabilisation checks were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Configuration on final was flap position 5 at 710 ft agl with a speed of 134 kt; autopilot was disconnected at 805 ft agl at 132 kt.
Landing was made on runway 13L (runway length 3,741 m). Threshold height at 58 ft agl was slightly above target and threshold speed was good at 123 kt. The flare was described as good, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 128 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 116 kt, which was good, and a firm touchdown rate of minus 328 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect, with no bounce. Local weather at landing was temperature 10 °C, wind 6 kt from 089° (crosswind 4 kt, headwind 4 kt). Total landing distance was 1,389 m (37 % of runway) and rollout alignment was very good.
The flight covered 25 nm in 9 minutes and used 553 kg of fuel.
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