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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 6.2 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and wing drift like that usually keeps reappearing as bank in the climb, with 2.5° of bank in the first climb segment and 16° still showing in the second.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the runway centreline during the roll, then wings level through the climb.
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 44 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 18 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
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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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,635 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 484 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TBM 930 departed EGYP Mount Pleasant Airport on runway 23. Take-off was performed over a distance of 433 m, which was 28 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 67 kt. The local weather was 13 °C with wind 16 kt from 240°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 16 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl lasted 22 seconds, averaging 615 fpm and reaching 129 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 588 ft asl to 29,798 ft asl in 41 minutes, covering 152 nm, with a brief level-off at 2,400 ft asl. Level flight was maintained at 30,000 ft asl for 43 minutes, covering 199 nm, beginning 67 mi south-west of SFPS Port Stephens. Descent from 30,011 ft asl to 1,570 ft asl took 31 minutes and covered 95 nm, starting 23 mi north-east of Rio Grande.
Final approach to runway 25 at SAWH Malvinas Argentinas Airport began with a descent from 1,545 ft agl to 96 ft agl in 185 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 2,578 ft agl at 151 kt; the final flap position 2 was selected at 1,513 ft agl at 124 kt.
The aircraft crossed the threshold of runway 25, whose length is 2,635 m, at a height of 84 ft agl, which was significantly above target, and at a threshold speed of 76 kt, slightly below target. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft crossed the threshold high. Touchdown occurred 483 m from the threshold at 60 kt with a smooth rate of -126 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 26.6 m from the centreline, but there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 599 m, representing 23 % of the runway, and the rollout was misaligned by 17.5 m from the centreline.
Local weather at SAWH was 10 °C with wind 17 kt from 230°, giving a 10 kt cross-wind component and a 14 kt head-wind component. After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 7 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 453 nm in 126 minutes and consumed 318 kg of fuel.
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