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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 170 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 82 kt fast at 252 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 170 kt in the climb
Arrival
Close the throttles earlier on final so you cross the threshold at 142 kt rather than carrying excess speed.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 153 kt, 11 kt above the 142 kt target, and the nose was then only raised 0.9° in the flare, taking out little of the sink. Crossing the threshold fast like this usually carries extra energy into a flare that barely arrests the sink, and that combination usually ends in a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 142 kt at the threshold.
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 138 kt, 6 kt below the 144 kt target, and lifted off at 155 kt 3.3 s later, the nose coming up at 1.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 252 kt, 82 kt over its 170 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 957 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,353 m of runway left; gear up at 146 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,340 fpm on average to 957 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 3,374 m runway.
Rolled from 424 m in, never more than 0.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 45 % 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.
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 0.5 nm, then not again: fast from 0.5 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 50 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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 30 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +15 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 0.9° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 334 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 0 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 149 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 97 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 61 ft, 11 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 47 ft. Touched down 334 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 1,524 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 1,030 fpm at the flare to 590 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 1,524 m of the 3,351 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.9 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2 m of it down 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 334 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.80 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo departed from runway 09 at LEZL Sevilla Airport. Takeoff used 1,527 m of runway (45 % of runway) and rotation occurred at 138 kt. Local weather was 18 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 0 kt and tailwind 1 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 40 seconds, averaging 1,383 fpm and reaching 247 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,134 ft asl to 38,441 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 79 nm, beginning the climb 2 miles east of LEZL.
Cruise was level at 39,000 ft asl for 112 minutes, covering 797 nm, with the segment starting 3 miles south of Casabermeja.
Descent began from 38,994 ft asl to 5,048 ft asl in 16 minutes, covering 107 nm, starting 16 miles south of LICG Pantelleria Airport, with a brief level-off at 13,000 ft asl.
A level segment at 5,000 ft asl lasted 7 minutes, covering 29 nm, beginning 2 miles west of San Lawrenz.
The next descent from 4,998 ft asl to 1,525 ft asl took 5 minutes, covering 17 nm, starting 9 miles south of Birzebbuga, with a brief level-off at 3,100 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 31 at LMML Malta International Airport descended from 1,312 ft agl to 66 ft agl in 90 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level.
Landing on runway 31 used a threshold height of 61 ft agl, which was above target, and a threshold speed of 153 kt, slightly above target. The flare started early and was described as great. Touchdown occurred 334 m down the runway at 149 kt, a little fast, with a very hard rate of -593 fpm. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 952 m (28 % of runway) and rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing from the runway to parking took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 1,038 nm in 161 minutes, using 3,675 kg of fuel. Local weather at LMML was 15 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt and headwind 1 kt.
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