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Departure
Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 0.4 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 0.4 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 78 ft agl, above the 50 ft agl target. Crossing high like this usually reduces your margin before the touchdown zone ends.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against 50 ft at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 6.7° and 13.5°, and the speed between 77 kt and 90 kt.
Once clear of the runway the nose moved through a wide range, and the speed moved with it. Set the climb attitude, hold it and trim, and give the speed a few seconds to settle before correcting it with a degree or two of pitch. Chasing the airspeed with large pitch changes makes it wander more.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,396 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 3.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.8 m left. Airborne 11 % 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 908 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 986 m of runway left; gear up at 159 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,280 fpm on average to 908 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.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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.
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 500 ft gate: speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 65 kt.
Sideslipping at the upper gate - wing down, opposite rudder. That is a technique for losing height without gaining speed, so the sink rate, the glideslope and wings level are not asked there: they are what the slip is for. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.8 to 0.4 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.4 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 4.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 3.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 290 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: 4.5° here, which is about 470 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 80 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.
Inside the 1° band from 3.9 nm, where the final began, to 0.4 nm, then 13 m left of it from 0.4 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.
Inside the speed band from 3.9 nm, where the final began, to 1.2 nm, then fast to 0.8 nm (up to +23 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
The flare tracked the target profile closely
The flare was flown from 78 ft agl over the threshold, well above the target height, so the aircraft was above the profile for most of the landing. Touchdown was 357 m past the threshold. The flare cannot recover height that was never lost - fly the approach down to the aim point and the flare has somewhere to start from.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,556 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 77 ft, 27 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 33 ft. Touched down 357 m in, 52 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 1,556 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 480 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.1° on the way down. Into the flare at 63 kt, on the 65 kt approach speed, and 50 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 1,556 m of the 1,779 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.4 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.9 m left at the widest. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, 3.4° of bank.
Wind 103° at 2 kt · 1 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 357 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 58 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 53 s, an average deceleration of 0.03 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.
The rest of the report
The Piper PA-24 Comanche departed from runway 22 at LFLP Annecy Haute-Savoie Mont Blanc Airport. Takeoff distance was 184 m (13 % of runway) and liftoff speed was 70 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 15 °C, wind 5 kt from 110°, crosswind 5 kt, tailwind 2 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 39 seconds, averaging 1,303 fpm and reaching 85 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 2,457 ft asl to 4,614 ft asl in 2 minutes while covering 4 nm, starting overhead Meythet.
Level flight was maintained at 4,600 ft asl for 3 minutes, covering 8 nm, starting overhead Marcellaz-Albanais. Descent began from 4,677 ft asl to 2,607 ft asl in 3 minutes, covering 5 nm, starting overhead Saint-Germain-la-Chambotte.
Final approach to runway 18 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport descended from 1,921 ft agl to 93 ft agl in 140 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate. Configuration was landing gear down at 3,339 ft agl at 129 kt and final flap position 9 at 2,809 ft agl at 108 kt.
Landing on runway 18 was on a runway 1,779 m long. Threshold height at 78 ft agl was well above target and threshold speed was good at 66 kt. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft crossed the threshold high. Touchdown occurred 357 m from the threshold at 50 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 166 fpm and very good runway alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,448 m (81 % of runway) and runway rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was temperature 14 °C, wind 2 kt from 104°, crosswind 2 kt, headwind 1 kt. Taxiing from the runway to parking took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The total flight covered 22 nm, lasted 13 minutes and used 9 kg of fuel.
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