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Settle the descent rate
See Arrival Approach
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 77 kt with 6.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 108 kt, 26 kt under 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 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 958 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,016 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,660 fpm on average to 958 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 2,674 m runway.
Rolled from 139 m in, drifted 2.3 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 18 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and speed more than 43 kt above the approach speed of 85 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high until 2.1 nm, sinking too fast until 1.1 nm, fast from 1.3 nm and left of the centreline from 0.8 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.
High from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to 3.2 nm (up to 1,020 ft over), then back on it to 2.9 nm, then high to 2.1 nm (up to 740 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm, then 26 m left of it from 0.8 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.
Fast from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to 2.7 nm (up to +87 kt), then inside the band to 1.3 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +25 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
The flare mostly held the target profile. Crossing the threshold 15 kt above target, the flare took the sink out 2 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft flew down from there. Touchdown was 310 m past the threshold. Let it come lower before checking the descent - holding off high uses runway and leaves the touchdown to chance.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 093° at 6 kt · 6 kt tail · 0 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 107 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 45 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 13 ft. Touched down 310 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 350 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.6° 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 1,769 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.9 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.4 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 310 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 202 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at UAFW Kant Air Base took less than a minute, covering a short distance of less than one nautical mile. The TBM 930 then began its departure roll on runway 11R, utilizing 18% of the available runway length to achieve liftoff at a speed of 78 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 13°C, with a gentle headwind of 3 knots from a direction of 124°.
As the aircraft climbed away from UAFW Kant Air Base, it transitioned into an enroute climb phase, ascending from an initial altitude of 3,523 feet above sea level to a cruising altitude of 25,441 feet. This climb phase covered a distance of 92 nautical miles and took approximately 22 minutes to complete, resulting in an impressive increase of 21,918 feet in altitude. The enroute descent phase began 27 miles west of UASV Sosnovka Airport, where the aircraft descended from 25,517 feet to 6,211 feet in just 11 minutes, covering a distance of 46 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 28 at UATL Talas Airport was conducted from the east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 281.0° at an altitude of 2,004 feet above ground level, 3 nautical miles from the threshold. The landing was executed with a threshold speed well above the target value of 100 knots, resulting in a touchdown distance of 309 meters. However, the touchdown speed of 93 knots was slightly faster than desired, and the touchdown rate of -228 feet per minute was fair. The aircraft landed slightly off-centerline, with a deviation of 4.4 meters from the runway centerline. Following a successful landing, the TBM 930 taxied to the parking area, taking approximately 9 minutes to cover a short distance of less than one nautical mile. The total flight distance was 143 nautical miles, with a fuel consumption of -410 kilograms.
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