Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Hold the aim point and wait for the speed to bleed before raising the nose, starting the flare within the normal band instead of 90 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 90 ft, 45 ft earlier than the normal band.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: start the flare within the normal flare band
See Arrival Landing
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 18 stages, 16 in the score
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 183 kt with 4.7° of pitch.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 850 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,372 ft of runway left; then climbing at 2,170 fpm on average to 850 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 9,523 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 13 ft left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 72 % 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: 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.7 nm, about 400 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the glideslope.
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.
Low from 4 nm to 1.7 nm (up to 640 ft under), then back on it to the threshold.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 18× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 70 ft 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −3 kt and +2 kt on the approach speed of 144 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
Very good landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 000° at 2 kt · 0 kt head · 2 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 150 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 33 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 6,407 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,873 ft in, 873 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 6,407 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 520 fpm at 35 ft to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° 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 6,407 ft of the 10,780 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 15 ft 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 1,873 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Airbus A300 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru. This process took 6 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 34R, with a takeoff distance of 6,896 feet, which was 72% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 184 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of the airport, it encountered local weather conditions of 79°F temperature and a 5-knot wind at 190°. The crosswind was 3 knots, and the tailwind was 4 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile north of the airport and continued for 22 minutes, covering a distance of 135 nautical miles. The aircraft climbed from an initial altitude of 1,035 feet above sea level to a maximum altitude of 30,628 feet.
After reaching the cruising altitude, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 189 minutes and covered a distance of 1,509 nautical miles. This phase of the flight took place 6 miles northwest of Huachocolpa, Peru. Following the cruise phase, the aircraft began its descent, which started 2 miles southwest of Goiania, Brazil. The descent took 18 minutes and covered a distance of 88 nautical miles, with the aircraft decreasing its altitude from 30,758 feet to 4,153 feet.
The final approach to runway 11R at Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport in Goiania, Brazil, was made from the west, with a heading of 86.0°. The aircraft was at an altitude of 689 feet above ground level and 4 nautical miles from the runway. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 84°F temperature and a 2-knot wind at 0°. The crosswind was 2 knots, and the headwind was 0 knots.
The aircraft landed on runway 11R, which had a length of 10,780 feet. The touchdown point was 527 feet beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 138 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was fair at -251 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the runway rollout alignment was also very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, which took 7 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,741 nautical miles, and the total flight time was 244 minutes. The aircraft used 50,123 pounds of fuel during the flight.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values