Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Use small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout, keeping the wings level with gentle aileron.
What happened: The aircraft rolled out on landing with 6.1° of bank angle.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator and hold the wings level through the rollout.
See Arrival Landing
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 · 13 stages, 12 in the score
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 84 kt against the 84 kt rotate speed, the nose rising at 2.8° a second, then held 6.0° from 35 ft, within 4.8° 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 3,586 m runway.
Rolled from 38 m in, never more than 1 m off the centreline. Airborne 14 % 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 the end of Climb 3 at 964 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,703 m of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,120 fpm on average to 964 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. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
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. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 26 kt above the approach speed of 85 kt.
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 0.3 nm, about 120 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 110 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 484 m left of the centreline at 2.0 nm, then inside the band from 1.5 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 2.0 nm, where the final began, to 1.1 nm (up to +72 kt), then inside the band to 0.8 nm, then fast to 0.3 nm (up to +19 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
The flare held the target profile well
The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 4 times on the way down. Touchdown was 529 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 42 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 43 ft. Touched down 529 m in, 225 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 1,524 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 400 fpm at the flare to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.2° on the way down. Into the flare at 92 kt, 7 kt over the 85 kt approach speed, and 78 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 3,342 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.9 m of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt tail · 0 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 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.
Touched down 529 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 82 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 32 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 to runway 27L at LFPG Charles de Gaulle International Airport and commenced the take-off roll; the aircraft used 544 m, representing 15 % of the runway, and lifted off at 88 kt. Local conditions were 16 °C with a 2 kt wind from 270°, a 0 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Climb began over Roissy-en-France, with the airplane ascending from 1,342 ft asl to 3,987 ft asl, a gain of 2,645 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 6 nm.
Cruise was established over Sevran, lasting 11 minutes and encompassing 44 nm of level flight.
Descent started above Gentilly, during which the aircraft descended from 3,739 ft asl to 691 ft asl, a loss of 3,048 ft in 3 minutes and over a distance of 9 nm.
Final approach to runway 06 at LFPO Paris-Orly Airport reduced altitude from 712 ft agl to 57 ft agl in 58 seconds, and the flight was recorded as having met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing on runway 06, whose length is 3,342 m, occurred with a threshold speed of 92 kt; touchdown was 90 m beyond the touchdown zone at 78 kt and a vertical speed of minus 62 fpm. Weather at the time was 15 °C with a 2 kt wind from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component. The total landing distance measured 1,156 m, equivalent to 35 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as perfect, and the aircraft remained on the centreline during the deceleration phase.
Taxi-in to the parking area from the runway required 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 63 nm, lasted 22 minutes and consumed 60 kg of fuel.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values