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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 164 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 34 kt fast at 198 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 164 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 3 ft, 8.2 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.
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.
Rotated at 143 kt, 8 kt below the 151 kt target, and lifted off at 164 kt 5.6 s later, the nose coming up at 1.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 198 kt, 34 kt over 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 943 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,332 m of runway left; gear up at 147 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,880 fpm on average to 943 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 3,394 m runway.
Rolled from 147 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 9.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 9.2 m right. Airborne 50 % 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: five 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: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: banked until 0.9 nm, sinking too fast until 0.6 nm, fast until 0.5 nm, low from 0.7 nm and right of the centreline from 0.6 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.
High from 1.9 nm, where the final began, to 1.5 nm (up to 230 ft over), then back on it to 0.7 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 110 ft under).
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 479 m right of the centreline at 1.9 nm, then inside it from 1.5 to 0.6 nm, then 30 m right of it from 0.6 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 1.9 nm, where the final began, to 1.5 nm, then fast to 0.5 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 3 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 65 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 243° at 1 kt · 0 kt head · 1 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 2,323 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 10 ft, 40 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 3 ft. Touched down 65 m in, 240 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 2,323 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 700 fpm and 720 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 2,323 m of the 3,644 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.4 m right of the centreline and drifted to 7.9 m left on 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 65 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.88 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to the runway in 6 minutes, covering 2 nm, and departed from runway 25L at OPKC Jinnah International Airport. Take-off used 1,711 m, about 50 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 143 kt. Local weather was 41 °C, wind 2 kt from 040°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 27 seconds, averaging 1,767 fpm and reaching 204 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,087 ft asl to 35,009 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 155 nm, beginning 1 mile north of OPSF Faisal Air Base Karachi and including a brief level-off at 7,000 ft asl.
Cruise was maintained at 35,000 ft asl for 69 minutes, covering 541 nm, starting 3 miles west of OPBO Sawan Airport Bozdar. Descent began from 35,003 ft asl to 13,607 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 130 nm, starting 33 miles north-east of Battagram, with a brief level-off at 20,000 ft asl.
A climb from 13,608 ft asl to 15,272 ft asl followed in 2 minutes, covering 7 nm, beginning 7 miles south of Skardu. This was followed by a descent from 15,271 ft asl to 7,332 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 21 nm, starting 4 miles south-west of Skardu.
On final approach to runway 32 at OPSD Skardu Airport, the aircraft descended from 609 ft agl to -248 ft agl in 37 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down and landing flap; they were not met for sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. The landing gear was down at 1,214 ft agl at 289 kt, and the final flap position 5 was selected at 876 ft agl at 188 kt.
Landing occurred on runway 32, whose length is 3,644 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 137 kt. The flare was described as fair, starting early. Touchdown was 65 m from the threshold, at 136 kt, with a heavy rate of -695 fpm. The aircraft touched down slightly off centreline by 3.7 m and experienced one bounce. Total landing distance was 2,247 m, representing 62 % of the runway, and the rollout was slightly misaligned by 7.9 m from centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering 1 nm. The total flight covered 864 nm in 127 minutes and used 5,451 kg of fuel.
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