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Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 110 kt with 2.9° of pitch.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 949 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 139 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,460 fpm on average to 949 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 694 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline. Airborne 47 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 4° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 2.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 120 ft under).
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.
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 575 m right of the centreline at 2.8 nm, then drifted 200 m left between 2.2 and 0.6 nm, then back inside it from 0.6 to 0.3 nm, then 16 m left of it from 0.3 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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +76 kt on the approach speed of 80 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
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 3° of bank.
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 83 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 8 s, an average deceleration of 0.35 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.
Crossed the threshold at 17 ft, 33 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 217 m in, 88 m short of 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 370 fpm at 16 ft to 110 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,651 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.5 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 8.4 m left 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 217 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 23 at LFKA Albertville General Pierre Delachenal Airfield, a Beechcraft Baron G58 aircraft taking to the skies. The takeoff distance was 408 meters, which accounted for 59% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 110 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time were characterized by a temperature of 17 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind of 1 kilometer per hour from a direction of 273 degrees.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airfield, it began its enroute climb, starting overhead the town of Sainte-Helene-sur-Isere in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of France. The climb was steep, with the aircraft rising from an altitude of 2,057 feet above sea level to 2,749 feet in less than a minute, covering a distance of just 1 nautical mile. This rapid ascent was followed by a series of enroute descents and level cruises, with the aircraft passing over various towns and villages in the region.
One of the descents took place 1 mile southeast of Montailleur, where the aircraft dropped from 2,743 feet to 1,766 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. Another descent occurred overhead the town of Les Marches, where the aircraft descended from 2,456 feet to 1,413 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles. The level cruise phase of the flight took place overhead the town of Chamousset, lasting for 3 minutes and covering a distance of 9 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its final approach to runway 36 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport, coming in from the south at a heading of 1.0 degrees. The aircraft was at an altitude of 641 feet above ground level and 2 nautical miles from the runway threshold. The local weather conditions at the time were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind of 1 kilometer per hour from a direction of 291 degrees.
The landing was smooth, with the aircraft touching down on the runway at a speed of 77 knots and a touchdown rate of -111 feet per minute. The touchdown distance was 216 meters, which was a good result, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 432 meters, which accounted for 26% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned, by 10.9 meters from the centerline.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 25 nautical miles and took 13 minutes to complete, using 197 kilograms of fuel in the process. The flight was a successful one, with the aircraft performing well in a variety of different conditions.
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