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Departure
Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 0.4 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 0.4 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Add power on final to hold 66 kt over the threshold.
What happened: Crossing the threshold at 51 kt against 66 kt usually leaves little energy to cushion the touchdown, and a firm arrival like that often carries through into higher g on the rollout.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 66 kt at the threshold
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 12 stages, 10 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 70 kt against the 68 kt rotate speed, then held 12.2° from 35 ft, within 5.2° top to bottom.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 985 m runway.
Rolled from 86 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.6 m left. Airborne 31 % 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 399 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 445 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,120 fpm on average to 399 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.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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: 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.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 66 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: gear up until 2.9 nm, no landing flap until 2.6 nm, high until 1.3 nm, left of the centreline from 1.8 nm and slow from 0.4 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 4° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 3.2 nm, where the final began, to 2.5 nm, then high to 1.3 nm (up to 570 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: 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. 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 1,226 m right of the centreline at 3.2 nm, then inside it from 2.2 to 1.8 nm, then 72 m left of it from 1.8 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.2 nm, where the final began, to 2.4 nm (up to +58 kt), then inside the band to 0.4 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −15 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 4.0 points, for the nose going up and down 4 times.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 39 ft, 33 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 32 ft, 18 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 239 m in, 66 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 480 fpm at the flare to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° on the way down. Into the flare at 52 kt, 14 kt under the 66 kt approach speed, and 41 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 1,874 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.5 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.2 m right at the widest. Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 4.8° of bank.
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 239 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 50 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 Piper PA-24 Comanche taxied to runway 32 at LFLE Chambéry Challes-les-Eaux Airfield and departed, using 335 m of runway (34 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 70 kt. Local weather was 9 °C with wind 0 kt from 091°, crosswind 0 kt and headwind 0 kt.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 19 seconds, averaging 1,131 fpm and reaching 84 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,147 ft asl to 1,851 ft asl in under a minute, covering less than 1 nm while passing overhead Barby. Level flight was maintained at 2,200 ft asl for 2 minutes, covering 4 nm and passing overhead La Ravoire.
Descent for the final approach to runway 36 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport began from 1,594 ft agl and continued to -196 ft agl in 117 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were: gear down, landing flap, on glideslope, wings level - all met; sink rate, on centreline, on speed - not met.
The aircraft landed on runway 36. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 51 kt, noted as well below target. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 239 m down the runway at 41 kt with a smooth rate of -144 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 521 m (28 % of runway) and the rollout alignment was very good.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight was 8 nm, lasted 5 minutes and used 3 kg of fuel.
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