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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Be established on the glideslope by the gate, and take the power back earlier on final so the height and the speed come back together. Do not push down for the height: that only adds speed.
What happened: The approach was off the glideslope at the gate, and the aircraft then crossed the threshold at 163 ft agl, 113 ft agl above the 50 ft agl target, and at 155 kt, 24 kt over the 131 kt threshold speed. High and fast together is energy the runway has to absorb, and this touchdown came 1,607 m beyond the aim point.
Watch for: Glideslope indication at the gate, then airspeed: 131 kt on short final
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 25 stages, 23 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 164 kt, 11 kt above the 153 kt target, and lifted off at 167 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 3.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 151 kt, 13 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 1,056 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,307 m of runway left; gear up at 215 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,290 fpm on average to 1,056 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 4,091 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 11 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.4 m left, in 13 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 63 % 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. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 131 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high all the way, fast all the way, sinking too fast from 1.4 nm and left 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.
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 3.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 1,460 ft over).
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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 3.5 nm, where the final began, to 0.9 nm, then drifted 30 m right between 0.9 and 0.7 nm, then back inside it from 0.7 to 0.3 nm, then 16 m left 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +70 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 tracked the target profile closely. Crossing the threshold 24 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 2,064 m past the threshold. The flare cannot burn off excess energy - fix the approach speed and the float goes with it.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 149° at 6 kt · 5 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.
From 119 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 40 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 2,821 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 162 ft, 112 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 48 ft. Touched down 2,064 m in, 1,759 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 2,821 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 990 fpm before coming down at 440 fpm to touch. The nose went down 2.9° 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 2,821 m of the 3,330 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.7 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.3 m left 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.
Touched down 2,064 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 436 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 26R at KLAS Harry Reid International Airport in 9 minutes, covering 3 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 26R with a take-off distance of 2,576 m (63 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 164 kt. The local weather at departure was temperature 42 °C, wind 24 kt from 229°, giving a crosswind component of 16 kt and a headwind component of 19 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 25 seconds, averaging 2,059 fpm and reaching 150 kt at the top of the climb.
The climb continued from 3,230 ft asl to 40,644 ft asl in 22 minutes, covering 157 nm, beginning 1 mile west of KLAS with a brief level-off at 31,300 ft asl.
Cruise level flight was held at 41,000 ft asl for 14 minutes, covering 96 nm, beginning 5 miles north-west of Valle.
Descent from 41,252 ft asl to 31,308 ft asl lasted 17 minutes, covering 142 nm, beginning 3 miles north-east of Dilkon, with brief level-offs at 31,200 ft asl, 31,300 ft asl, 30,700 ft asl, 31,300 ft asl, 31,200 ft asl and 31,200 ft asl.
A prolonged level segment at 31,300 ft asl continued for 199 minutes, covering 1,605 nm, beginning 14 miles south-west of Highland Meadows.
The final descent from 31,328 ft asl to 1,806 ft asl took 12 minutes, covering 75 nm, beginning 14 miles north of MYX5 Cistern Field.
Final approach to runway 14 at MYNN Lynden Pindling International Airport descended from 1,883 ft agl to 185 ft agl in 56 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, centreline and wings level; they were not met for glideslope and speed. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 2,922 ft agl and 211 kt, and final flap position 5 at 1,663 ft agl and 180 kt.
Landing on runway 14 (runway length 3,330 m) had a threshold height of 163 ft agl, which was excessively over target, and a threshold speed of 155 kt, which was too high. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred after using more than 50 % of the available runway, at a speed of 120 kt (good) and a hard rate of -436 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 7.8 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 29 °C, wind 5 kt from 150°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 5 kt. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 2,692 m (81 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 7.7 m from the centreline.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 5 minutes, covering 1 nm.
The flight covered a total distance of 2,087 nm in 280 minutes and used 13,004 kg of fuel.
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