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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Steepen the descent on final to bring the aircraft back down to the glideslope and cross the threshold at 50 ft.
What happened: The approach was flown off the glideslope, and crossing the threshold high like this usually carries the touchdown long.
Watch for: Watch the VASI or PAPI glideslope indication against the threshold crossing height of 50 ft.
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
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Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 64 kt against the 66 kt rotate speed, the nose rising at 4.7° a second, then held 11.5° from 35 ft, within 2.4° 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 985 m runway.
Rolled from 51 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.7 m left, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 39 % 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 170 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 417 m of runway left; then climbing at 780 fpm on average to 170 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway.
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 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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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: six 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 2° off the runway's 4°.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast until 1.2 nm, high from 2.1 nm, sinking too fast from 1.0 nm and right of the centreline from 0.6 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° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 3.7 nm, where the final began, to 2.1 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 500 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: 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 1,998 m right of the centreline at 3.7 nm, then inside it from 1.9 to 0.6 nm, then 36 m right of it from 0.6 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 34 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 1.2 nm (up to +48 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
The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 3.6° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 456 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 104 ft, 54 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 30 ft. Touched down 456 m in, 151 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 1,524 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 490 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.6° on the way down. Into the flare at 73 kt, 6 kt over the 67 kt approach speed, and 63 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 7 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 1.3 m left by the end of the rollout. 3 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 63 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, 3.6° of bank.
Wind 299° at 4 kt · 2 kt head · 3 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 456 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 64 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 DR40 departed from runway 32 at LFLE Chambéry Challes-les-Eaux Airfield. Take-off was performed using 397 m of runway, 40 % of the available length, and rotation occurred at 64 kt. The local weather at departure was 37 °C with a wind of 6 kt from 228°, giving a 6 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind component.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 12 seconds, averaging 906 fpm and reaching 69 kt at the top of the climb. After a brief level segment at 1 300 ft asl for under a minute and less than 1 nm, the aircraft climbed from 1 421 ft asl to 2 118 ft asl in 3 minutes, covering 5 nm.
During final approach to runway 36 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport, descent was from 1 638 ft agl to 192 ft agl in 109 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, sink rate, centreline, speed and wings level; the glideslope check was not met. The aircraft was in final flap position 2 at 1 171 ft agl with a speed of 102 kt.
Landing on runway 36 was made with a threshold height of 104 ft agl, which was excessively over target, and a threshold speed of 76 kt, well above target. The flare was described as very good, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 456 m down the runway at 63 kt and a rate of -199 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly off centreline by 7.0 m. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 940 m, 50 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 9 nm, the flight time 6 minutes, and fuel consumption was 2 kg. The local weather at landing was 38 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 299°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind component.
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