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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.
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 152 kt, 3 kt above the 149 kt target, and lifted off at 166 kt 5.0 s later, the nose coming up at 1.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 153 kt, 11 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 973 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,335 m of runway left; gear up at 297 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,070 fpm on average to 973 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 3,215 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 3.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.2 m left. Airborne 49 % 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 170 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 26× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 14 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 −2 kt and +15 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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.8° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 352 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 139 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 059° at 11 kt · 10 kt head · 4 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 1,528 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 63 ft, 13 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 16 ft. Touched down 352 m in, 47 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 1,528 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 670 fpm at the flare to 380 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 1,528 m of the 4,065 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.6 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.3 m right by the end of 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 352 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 375 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 33 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport in 7 minutes, covering 1 nm. Take-off was performed on runway 33 with a take-off distance of 1,571 m (49 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 152 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 11 °C, wind 8 kt from 140°, with a 2 kt crosswind and a 7 kt tailwind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 17 seconds, averaging 2,578 fpm and reaching 149 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,071 ft asl to 34,680 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 109 nm, beginning 1 mile south-west of Langenhorn. Level cruise was held at 35,000 ft asl for 22 minutes, covering 165 nm, starting 1 mile south of Schoeppenstedt. Descent from 34,552 ft asl to 2,923 ft asl took 26 minutes and covered 137 nm, beginning 1 mile west of Eslarn, with brief level-offs at 13,000 ft asl and 6,500 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 08R at EDDM Munich Airport began with a descent from 1,512 ft agl to 82 ft agl in 109 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 1,762 ft agl at 170 kt, and the final flap position 5 was selected at 1,473 ft agl at 155 kt.
Landing was made on runway 08R, whose length is 4,065 m. The threshold height of 63 ft agl was above target, while the threshold speed of 140 kt was good. The flare was described as good, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 352 m from the threshold at a speed of 139 kt, a little fast, and a firm rate of minus 375 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 6.6 m from the centreline. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,443 m (35 % of the runway) and the rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 8 minutes, covering 2 nm. The total flight covered 421 nm in 79 minutes and used 3,126 kg of fuel. Local weather at Munich was temperature 5 °C, wind 7 kt from 060°, with a 3 kt crosswind and a 6 kt headwind component.
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