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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 86 kt, not after it.
What happened: You started the rotation at 104 kt, 18 kt past the 86 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 86 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 140 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 140 fpm next time
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 104 kt, 18 kt above the 86 kt target, and lifted off at 109 kt 1.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 154 kt, 20 kt over its 134 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 709 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,067 m of runway left; gear up at 30 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,070 fpm on average to 709 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 2,124 m runway.
Rolled from 116 m in, drifted 2.6 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 41 % 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 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 170 ft below 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 6× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 63 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +11 kt and +16 kt on the approach speed of 83 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 030° at 3 kt · 3 kt head · 1 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 84 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 15 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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.
Began the flare at 21 ft, 12 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 19 ft, 31 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 361 m in, 56 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 390 fpm at the flare to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° on the way down.
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 1,699 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.1 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6.5 m right at the widest.
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 361 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 33 at SKLC Antonio Roldán Betancur Airport in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 33, the aircraft accelerated over 884 m, representing 42 % of the runway length, and lifted off at 110 kt; ambient conditions were 31 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 0°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile northwest of SKLC near Carepa, with the aircraft ascending from 775 ft asl to 6 880 ft asl-a gain of 6 105 ft-in 7 minutes while traversing 25 nm.
Cruise began about 1 mile southeast of Apartado and continued for 50 minutes, during which the flight covered 219 nm at level altitude.
Descent was initiated roughly 6 miles northwest of El Retén, with the aircraft descending from 6 900 ft asl to 1 123 ft asl, a loss of 5 777 ft in 8 minutes while covering 23 nm.
The final approach to runway 01 at SKSM Simón Bolívar International Airport was flown from the south on a heading of 359.0°, intercepting the glide path at 4 nm and 1 104 ft agl.
Landing on runway 01 was achieved with a threshold speed of 94 kt, a touchdown distance of 360 m, a touchdown speed of 83 kt, and a touchdown rate of minus 155 fpm; the touchdown point was offset 6.1 m from the centreline, and the total landing roll measured 776 m, equivalent to 46 % of the runway length.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good, and the aircraft came to a stop within the expected distance.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 275 nm, required 75 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 228 kg of fuel.
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