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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Level the wings with coordinated aileron to hold bank angle near zero during the initial climb, starting from 3.9°.
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.
Arrival
Continue arresting the sink throughout the flare so it does not return before the mains touch.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink to 5.5 ft, then 290 fpm returned before the mains touched, giving a touchdown rate of 236 fpm. Sink that returns after an early arrest usually produces a firmer touchdown than the flare alone would suggest.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 236 fpm next time
A good takeoff has a defined shape. It also has a defined end. For an airliner that's thrust reduction and acceleration, commonly somewhere around 1,000 to 1,500 ft above the airfield depending on the operator, while for a light aircraft it's established at Vy with the flaps on schedule. Most simmers have no defined end to their takeoff, which is exactly why it never gets judged.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 76 kt, 13 kt below the 89 kt target, and lifted off at 85 kt 3.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.3° a second.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 198 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 168 m of runway left; then climbing at 780 fpm on average to 198 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.
Plan view the roll down the 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 73 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.8 m left, in 15 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 58 % 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.
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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.2 nm, about 570 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 2.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 170 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 616 m left of the centreline at 2.5 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 45 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 27 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −9 kt and +27 kt on the approach speed of 89 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 4.0 points, for the nose going up and down 7 times.
14 kt across from the right, which takes about 11° of crab to hold the centreline at 72 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, 4° of bank.
Wind 019° at 15 kt · 2 kt head · 14 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 71 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 1,093 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 34 ft, 48 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 369 m in, 64 m past 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 1,093 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 490 fpm at the flare to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.6° 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 full 1,093 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.4 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.3 m right by the end of the rollout.
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 369 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 236 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The TBM 850 taxied from the parking area to runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield for 9 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 12. The aircraft used 646 m of runway, which is 59 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 76 kt. Local weather at departure was 7 °C with wind 18 kt from 029°, giving a 1 kt headwind and an 18 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 14 seconds at an average rate of 704 fpm, reaching 100 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 1,859 ft asl to 4,571 ft asl in 3 minutes, covering 8 nm and passing overhead Cranves-Sales.
The aircraft levelled at 4,500 ft asl for 13 minutes, covering 43 nm and passing overhead Amancy. Descent began from 4,210 ft asl to 3,043 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 4 nm and passing overhead Arbusigny. A further level segment at 2,700 ft asl lasted 6 minutes, covering 14 nm and passing overhead Vetraz-Monthoux.
Final approach to runway 30 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield started from 949 ft agl and descended to 91 ft agl in 82 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were: gear down - met; landing flap - met; sink rate - met; on glideslope - met; on speed - met; wings level - met; on centreline - not met.
Landing was on runway 30, whose length is 1,093 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 88 kt, described as good. The flare was noted as excellent. Touchdown occurred 369 m down the runway at 72 kt, described as good, with a touchdown rate of minus 236 fpm, described as fair. The touchdown point was slightly off centreline by 4.6 m. Local weather at landing was 7 °C with wind 14 kt from 019°, giving a 2 kt headwind and a 14 kt crosswind. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 692 m, 63 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area for 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 74 nm in 30 minutes and used 79 kg of fuel.
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