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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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 157 kt with 3.8° of pitch.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 981 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,423 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,150 fpm on average to 981 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,591 m runway.
Rolled from 157 m in, drifted 4.3 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 26 % 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 final from 4 nm.
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 290 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 7× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 52 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.9 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −12 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
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 20 ft, 30 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 318 m in, close to 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.
From 18 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 130 fpm before coming down at 180 fpm to touch. The nose went down 2.0° 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 3,075 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 7.6 m left on the rollout. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 200° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 2 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 318 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.46 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Airbus A320 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at London Heathrow Airport, taking approximately 9 minutes and covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then departed from runway 27R, with a takeoff distance of 794 meters, which accounted for 22% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 158 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time of departure were a temperature of 14 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 11 knots from a direction of 270 degrees.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it began its enroute climb from 1,145 feet above sea level to 22,343 feet above sea level, an increase of 21,198 feet in just 7 minutes, covering a distance of 30 nautical miles. The climb started overhead Harmondsworth in Greater London, England. Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 244 minutes and covered a distance of 79 nautical miles. This cruise phase took place over Wrotham in Kent, England.
The aircraft then began its descent from 22,848 feet above sea level to 10,483 feet above sea level, a decrease of 12,365 feet in just 5 minutes, covering a distance of 31 nautical miles. This descent started 8 miles northwest of Bray-Dunes in Hauts-de-France, France. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted for 5 minutes and covered a distance of 24 nautical miles. This cruise phase took place over Zwevezele in Flanders, Belgium.
The aircraft then began its descent from 9,567 feet above sea level to 3,031 feet above sea level, a decrease of 6,536 feet in just 5 minutes, covering a distance of 22 nautical miles. This descent started 1 mile east of Destelbergen in Flanders, Belgium. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted for 5 minutes and covered a distance of 15 nautical miles. This cruise phase took place over Heindonk in Flanders, Belgium.
The final descent phase began 1 mile southeast of Begijnendijk in Flanders, Belgium, where the aircraft descended from 3,036 feet above sea level to 1,640 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,397 feet in just 4 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 25R at Brussels Airport, flying from the northeast at a heading of 245.0 degrees and at an altitude of 1,495 feet above ground level, 4 nautical miles from the runway. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 6 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 3 knots from a direction of 200 degrees.
The aircraft landed safely on runway 25R, with a touchdown distance of 317 meters, which was good. The touchdown speed was 95 knots, and the touchdown rate was -178 feet per minute, both of which were good. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the runway rollout alignment was very good. The total landing distance was 692 meters, which accounted for 22% of the runway.
The total flight distance was 216 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 50 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 2,865 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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