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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
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 6.7° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 69 kt against the 68 kt rotate speed, then held 10.5° from 35 ft, within 3.9° top to bottom.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 796 m runway.
Rolled from 106 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.4 m left. 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. 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 302 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 186 m of runway left; then climbing at 980 fpm on average to 302 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.
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.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.3 nm, about 260 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 3.7 nm, where the final began, to 1.9 nm, then high to 1.3 nm (up to 470 ft over), 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, 305 m past the threshold: 4° here, which is about 420 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 70 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 1,161 m right of the centreline at 3.7 nm, then inside it from 2.5 to 0.9 nm, then drifted 31 m left between 0.9 and 0.3 nm, then inside the band 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 3.7 nm, where the final began, to 2.4 nm (up to +92 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 mostly held the target profile
Pitch was 0.3° at touchdown, at or below this aircraft's ground attitude, so the nosewheel met the runway with the main wheels or before them. Touchdown was 322 m past the threshold. Keep raising the nose through the flare so the main wheels touch first.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 34 ft, 21 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 3 ft from 1 ft. Touched down 322 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 150 fpm before coming down at 210 fpm to touch. The nose came up 3.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 63 kt, on the 65 kt approach speed, and 44 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 1,524 m of the 1,874 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.2 m left at the widest. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 4.8° of bank.
Wind 190° at 5 kt · 5 kt tail · 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 322 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 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 05 at LFKA Albertville General Pierre Delachenal Airfield. Takeoff used 382 m, 48 % of the runway, and liftoff occurred at 70 kt. Local weather was 15 °C with wind 4 kt from 112°, giving a 3 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 16 seconds, averaging 969 fpm and reaching 81 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,379 ft asl to 3,397 ft asl in 3 minutes while covering 5 nm, passing overhead Notre-Dame-des-Millieres. Cruise was level at 3,400 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 13 nm, starting overhead Gresy-sur-Isère. Descent began from 3,710 ft asl to 2,183 ft asl in 3 minutes, covering 7 nm, starting overhead Saint-Jeoire-Prieure.
For the final approach to runway 36 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport, descent continued from 1,819 ft agl to 58 ft agl in 142 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway all stabilisation checks were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Gear was lowered at 1,330 ft agl at 88 kt; the final flap position 9 was selected at 809 ft agl at 94 kt.
Landing on runway 36 was on a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly below target at 60 kt. The flare was described as very good; the aircraft touched down flat with the nosewheel first. Touchdown occurred 322 m down the runway at 44 kt, with a fair rate of -207 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 796 m, 42 % of the 1,874 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 12 °C with wind 7 kt from 190°, giving a 2 kt cross-wind and a 7 kt tail-wind. Taxiing from the runway to parking took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 29 nm in 13 minutes and used 10 kg of fuel.
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