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Arrival
On final, make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: The approach drifted off the centreline, and the aircraft touched down 17 m off the centreline before the rollout continued 30 m off it. Drifting off the centreline on approach usually carries through to touchdown and the rollout in the same direction.
Watch for: Centreline: track it with small rudder corrections, wings level.
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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Taxi out
The roll
A slow rotation
The nose came up at 149 kt against the 150 kt rotate speed, and rose at 2.0° a second, slower than the 2.1 to 2.9 other Airbus A320ceo pilots fly.
The rotation started on speed but the nose came up slowly. Make it one positive, continuous pull at the normal rate for this aircraft, rather than easing the nose up in steps.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,046 m runway.
Rolled from 87 m in, drifted 3.3 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 56 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 978 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 991 m of runway left; gear up at 343 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,850 fpm on average to 978 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 2.1 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A320ceo pilots over the last 180 days (230 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 11.7°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.4 to 0.3 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 0.3 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.
Why this is not a circuit
Off and back onto LHBP, scored as a flight. A circuit passes all five:
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 60 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 510 m right of the centreline, then inside it from 2.4 to 0.3 nm, then 14 m right of it from 0.3 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 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +2 kt on the approach speed of 137 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,688 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 53 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 19 ft. Touched down 347 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 1,688 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 660 fpm at the flare to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.0° on the way down. Into the flare at 139 kt, on the 137 kt approach speed, and 137 kt at touchdown.
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 1,688 m of the 3,742 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 18 m right of the centreline and drifted to 22 m right on the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 2.1° of bank.
Wind 279° at 3 kt · 3 kt head · 1 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 347 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.18 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 31L in 6 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 31L at LHBP Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport. The aircraft used 1 701 m of runway (56 % of the available length) and rotated at 149 kt. Local weather at departure was 10 °C with wind 3 kt from 280°, a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 29 seconds, averaging 1 741 fpm and reaching 185 kt at the top of the climb. The subsequent climb from 1 473 ft asl to 7 421 ft asl was completed in 2 minutes while covering 8 nm, beginning 2 nm east of Kispest.
Descent began from 7 979 ft asl and proceeded to 1 725 ft asl in 7 minutes, covering 25 nm and starting 3 nm south-west of Kispest, with a brief level-off at 3 100 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 31R at LHBP was executed from 1 383 ft agl down to 63 ft agl in 104 seconds. Stabilisation checks were performed at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. The checks were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed and wings level; the centreline check was not met at one gate. Configuration changes occurred as follows: landing gear was lowered at 1 927 ft agl at 152 kt; final flap position 5 was selected at 1 772 ft agl at 149 kt; autopilot was disconnected at 622 ft agl at 138 kt.
Landing on runway 31R (length 3 742 m) was made with a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 139 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred at 137 kt, slightly fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 244 fpm. The touchdown distance was 347 m, considered good, but the touchdown point was misaligned by 17.9 m from the centreline. One bounce occurred on touchdown.
The total landing roll was 1 604 m, representing 43 % of the runway, and the rollout was misaligned by 29.8 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 7 °C with wind 3 kt from 279°, a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
The entire flight covered 41 nm in 17 minutes and consumed 618 kg of fuel.
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