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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 170 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 74 kt fast at 244 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 170 kt in the climb
Arrival
Begin raising the nose earlier, by 11 ft, so the flare has time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 1.1 ft, 10 ft below the normal band, and a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and start the flare in the normal band, around 11 ft.
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 137 kt, 7 kt below the 144 kt target, and lifted off at 151 kt 2.7 s later, the nose coming up at 2.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 244 kt, 74 kt over its 170 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 933 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 650 m of runway left; gear up at 130 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,230 fpm on average to 933 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 2,495 m runway.
Rolled from 336 m in, never more than 1.5 m off the centreline. Airborne 54 % 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.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 135 kt.
When the approach was stable
Not every check held at once from 1.8 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 130 ft 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 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 1,122 m left of the centreline, then inside it from 2.5 to 1.4 nm, then drifted 48 m right between 1.4 and 0.5 nm, then inside the band from 0.5 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.8 nm, then fast to 0.2 nm (up to +23 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
Touchdown
The flare strayed well off the target profile. The flare began at 1 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 199 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 3° of bank.
Wind 269° at 1 kt · 1 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.
From 134 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 64 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 1 ft. Touched down 199 m in, 105 m short of 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 stayed between 640 fpm and 640 fpm from the flare to the runway. 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 2,874 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 16 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 16 m left at the widest.
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 199 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 643 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 29 at EPWR Copernicus Wrocław Airport. Rotation occurred at 137 kt and the take-off run was 1,359 m, representing 54 % of the runway. Local weather was 18 °C with a wind 1 kt from 270°, no cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft AGL took 42 seconds, averaging 1,156 fpm and reaching 246 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,385 ft ASL to 10,938 ft ASL in 6 minutes while covering 30 nm, passing overhead Galow. Level cruise was flown at 11,000 ft ASL for 5 minutes, covering 31 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-east of Scinawa. Descent began from 11,000 ft ASL to 1,730 ft ASL in 12 minutes, covering 52 nm, starting 2 miles north-west of Tarnow Opolski.
On final approach to runway 26 at EPKT Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport, descent from 1,191 ft AGL to 66 ft AGL was completed in 88 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; speed was not met. Gear was lowered at 2,098 ft AGL at 264 kt and the final flap position 4 was selected at 1,638 ft AGL at 195 kt.
Landing on runway 26 was made with a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 136 kt. The flare was very poor, starting late. Touchdown occurred 199 m from the threshold at 132 kt, with a heavy rate of -644 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 15.6 m from the centreline, but there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,194 m, 42 % of the runway, and the rollout was slightly misaligned by 14.9 m from the centreline.
Taxi from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The flight covered 121 nm in 29 minutes and used 461 kg of fuel. Local weather at the destination was 15 °C with a wind 1 kt from 270°, no cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind.
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