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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 60 ft agl, above the 50 ft agl target. Crossing high like this usually reduces your margin before the touchdown zone ends.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against 50 ft at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 91 kt, 6 kt before the 97 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,031 m runway.
Rolled from 65 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.4 m 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 1,028 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 771 m of runway left; gear up at 14 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,310 fpm on average to 1,028 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.
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 2.1 nm, about 680 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 210 ft above 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 151 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 44 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.3 nm (up to +64 kt), then inside the band to 2.3 nm, then slow to 2.1 nm (up to −7 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 59 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 35 ft. Touched down 333 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.
The sink went from 700 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 8.1° on the way down. Into the flare at 85 kt, on the 87 kt approach speed, and 65 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 1,644 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.4 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2.4 m of it down the rollout. 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 tail · 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 333 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 69 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 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.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 08 at EGTE Exeter International Airport in 21 minutes, covering 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 08, the TBM 850 accelerated over a takeoff distance of 796 m, representing 39 % of the runway, and lifted off at 94 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 16 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, with zero cross-wind and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile north of Aylesbeare, Devon, with the aircraft ascending from 1,144 ft asl to 7,009 ft asl-a gain of 5,865 ft-in 3 minutes while covering 8 nm.
The first cruise segment began overhead Otterton, Devon, and continued for 24 minutes, during which 98 nm were flown at level altitude.
Descent started 2 miles north-west of EGJB Guernsey Airport, descending from 6,676 ft asl to 2,223 ft asl, a loss of 4,453 ft in 5 minutes and covering 19 nm.
A second cruise phase was initiated 10 miles west of EGJJ Jersey Airport, lasting 13 minutes and encompassing 38 nm of level flight.
Final approach to runway 08 at EGJJ Jersey Airport involved a descent from 1,605 ft agl to 176 ft agl over 136 seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 08 was executed with a threshold speed of 93 kt; touchdown occurred at 65 kt, 333 m down the runway, and the vertical speed was -147 fpm. The touchdown point was 3.1 m off centreline, and the total landing distance measured 600 m, equivalent to 37 % of the runway. Local conditions were temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, zero cross-wind and a 2 kt tail-wind.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good, completing the landing phase without deviation.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 172 nm, required 55 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 16 kg of fuel.
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