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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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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 3.9° and 15.2°, and the speed between 107 kt and 136 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 1,689 m runway.
Rolled from 40 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 m left. Airborne 34 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 904 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 784 m of runway left; gear up at 33 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,380 fpm on average to 904 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. 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 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. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
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 2.1 nm, about 710 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 130 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 631 m right of the centreline at 2.9 nm, then inside the band from 2.1 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +21 kt on the approach speed of 86 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
Excellent landing flare
It lost 1.3 points, for the nose going up and down 2 times.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 27 ft. Touched down 372 m in, 67 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 790 fpm at the flare to 70 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.8° on the way down. Into the flare at 83 kt, 3 kt under the 86 kt approach speed, and 71 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 2,031 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, 4.1 m left at the widest. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 0 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 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 372 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 70 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.26 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 TBM 850 taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at EGHL Lasham Airfield in 1 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 27, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 92 kt and left the ground after a takeoff distance of 591 m, which represented 35 % of the runway; ambient temperature was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270 °, no cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind component.
The first en-route climb commenced 1 mile north of Bentworth, rising from 1,558 ft asl to 4,068 ft asl - a gain of 2,510 ft - in 2 minutes while covering 6 nm.
A level cruise segment began overhead Four Marks and lasted 20 minutes, during which 75 nm were flown.
Descent started 1 mile north-east of West Lulworth, descending from 4,007 ft asl to 1,351 ft asl - a loss of 2,656 ft - in 5 minutes and covering 11 nm.
A brief cruise over Portland followed, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 3 nm.
The next climb originated over Fortuneswell, increasing altitude from 963 ft asl to 4,059 ft asl - an ascent of 3,096 ft - in 5 minutes while traversing 14 nm.
Subsequent level cruise over Burton Bradstock continued for 7 minutes and covered 25 nm.
Descent over Aylesbeare reduced altitude from 3,747 ft asl to 830 ft asl - a decrease of 2,917 ft - in 4 minutes, encompassing 9 nm.
Final approach to runway 26 at EGTE Exeter International Airport involved a descent from 1,030 ft agl to 44 ft agl in 108 seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 26, which is 2,031 m long, was achieved with a threshold speed of 86 kt; touchdown occurred 371 m down the runway at 71 kt and a vertical speed of minus 42 fpm, and the alignment at touchdown was very good.
The rollout distance measured 608 m, representing 30 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 147 nm, required 50 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 22 kg of fuel.
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