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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 168 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 38 kt fast at 206 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 168 kt in the climb
Arrival
Fly the aircraft onto the runway at the aim point instead of holding it off and letting it float further down the runway.
What happened: This landing touched down well beyond the target point on the runway, with nothing else in the approach or flare accounting for it.
Watch for: Aim point markings: touchdown at the target point on the runway.
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 162 kt, 9 kt above the 153 kt target, and lifted off at 170 kt 2.0 s later, the nose coming up at 1.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 206 kt, 38 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 904 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,775 m of runway left; gear up at 38 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,090 fpm on average to 904 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 3,710 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline, in 5 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 41 % 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 40 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 10 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +5 kt on the approach speed of 140 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 mostly held the target profile. The flare began at 10 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 666 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 139 kt. Touched down with the nose 5° into wind, 3° of bank.
Wind 130° at 4 kt · 1 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 140 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.27 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 1,634 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 49 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 10 ft. Touched down 666 m in, 361 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 1,634 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 300 fpm at the flare to 250 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 1,634 m of the 2,791 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.4 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.1 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 666 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A321-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 02 at LPPT Humberto Delgado Airport, a movement that lasted 6 minutes and covered 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 02. The aircraft used 1,532 m of runway, which is 41 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 162 kt. Local weather at departure was 20 °C with wind 6 kt from 320°, giving a 5 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 23 seconds, averaging 1,978 fpm and reaching 214 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,310 ft asl to 35,499 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 154 nm and passing overhead Camarate.
Cruise was level at 36,500 ft asl for 33 minutes, covering 249 nm, beginning about 5 mi north of Serradilla.
Descent began from 37,011 ft asl and proceeded to 1,317 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 122 nm, starting 1 mi west of Siete Aguas.
Final approach to runway 06 at LEIB Ibiza Airport started from 1,338 ft agl and descended to 49 ft agl in 99 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 3,421 ft agl while the aircraft was at 212 kt. The final flap position 5 was selected at 1,972 ft agl with a speed of 161 kt.
Landing on runway 06 was performed with a good threshold height. The threshold speed was 143 kt. The flare was described as very good, although it started late. Touchdown occurred 252 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 139 kt, noted as a little fast, with a vertical rate of minus 246 fpm, rated fair. The touchdown point was 4.4 m off the centreline. No bounce was observed.
The total landing roll was 1,557 m, representing 56 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was 23 °C with wind 4 kt from 129°, giving a 4 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total distance of 533 nm in 92 minutes and consumed 4,074 kg of fuel.
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