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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 6.6 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Make one smooth, continuous back-pressure through the flare to about 6.9° nose-up, holding it steady rather than pumping the elevator before touchdown.
What happened: The flare was pumped, with pitch reversing several times as the sink was most arrested at 12 ft; pumped flares like this usually carry through to a firm touchdown, which happened here at 162 fpm.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold a steady nose-up pitch of 6.9° through the flare, smoothly to touchdown.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: five 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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,241 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,241 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 134 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TBM 930 taxied from the parking area to runway 30L at MMUN Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún in 3 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 30L. The aircraft used 807 m of runway, which is 23 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 92 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 28 °C, wind 6 kt from 070°, with a 5 kt crosswind and a 3 kt tailwind component.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 31 seconds, averaging 1 451 fpm and reaching 149 kt at the top of the climb.
The climb continued from 946 ft asl to 6 912 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 10 nm while passing overhead MMUN Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún.
Cruise was level at 7 000 ft asl for 2 minutes, covering 4 nm, beginning 2 miles east of MMAF Lorenzos Airstrip Alfredo V.
Descent began from 7 002 ft asl to 130 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 8 nm, starting 4 miles south of Isla Mujeres.
Approach and landing were on runway 15 at MMIM Aeropuerto Nacional de Isla Mujeres. Runway length is 1 241 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 85 kt. The flare was described as very good; the pitch was pumped up and down during the flare. Touchdown occurred at 80 kt, which was good, with a touchdown distance of 134 m, also good. The touchdown rate was good at minus 162 fpm and runway-touchdown alignment was very good. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 393 m, representing 32 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at the destination was temperature 28 °C, wind 8 kt from 090°, with a 7 kt crosswind and a 4 kt headwind component.
The flight covered a total of 26 nm in 13 minutes and consumed 37 kg of fuel.
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