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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Level the wings with coordinated aileron to hold bank angle near zero during the initial climb, starting from 9°.
What happened: Bank angle was elevated during the initial climb and excess bank usually persists into the second climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, wings level with bank angle near zero degrees.
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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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 71 kt, 17 kt before the 88 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 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 30 m in, never more than 1.1 m off the centreline. Airborne 45 % 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Side view from the start of the roll to 175 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 343 m of runway left; then climbing at 730 fpm on average to 175 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.
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.
One stabilised approach gate: five 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.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.1 nm, about 470 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate.
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 2.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 280 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.
Joined 160 m left of the centreline at 2.0 nm, then inside the band from 1.2 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 44 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 −4 kt and +24 kt on the approach speed of 88 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,101 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 25 ft, 138 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 8 ft, 42 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 186 m in, 118 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 1,101 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 640 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.2° on the way down. Into the flare at 91 kt, 3 kt over the 88 kt approach speed, and 76 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 full 1,101 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.9 m left at the widest. 3 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 76 kt. Touched down with the nose 6° into wind, wings level.
Wind 057° at 4 kt · 2 kt head · 3 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way. 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 186 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 78 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield, a movement that lasted 14 minutes and covered 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 12. The aircraft used 507 m of runway, 46 % of the available length, and lifted off at 75 kt. Local weather at departure was 12 °C with wind 4 kt from 093°, giving a crosswind component of 1 kt and a headwind component of 3 kt.
The initial climb to 400 ft agl took 13 seconds, averaging 702 fpm and reaching 92 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,807 ft asl to 6,808 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 29 nm and passing overhead Cranves-Sales.
Cruise was level at 6,500 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 17 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-east of La Giettaz.
Descent began from 6,539 ft asl to 2,321 ft asl in 9 minutes, covering 27 nm, starting about 1 mile north-east of Talloires.
On final approach to runway 12, the aircraft descended from 898 ft agl to 10 ft agl in 71 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on speed.
Landing was on runway 12, whose length is 1,101 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 85 kt, described as good. The flare was perfect. Touchdown occurred 186 m down the runway at 76 kt, with a rate of -88 fpm, both judged good. Alignment at touchdown and during rollout was perfect and very good respectively. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 504 m, 46 % of the runway.
Local weather at landing was 11 °C with wind 4 kt from 058°, giving a crosswind component of 3 kt and a headwind component of 2 kt.
After landing, the TBM 850 taxied to the parking area in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 77 nm, lasted 33 minutes and used 84 kg of fuel.
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