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Departure
Center the rudder and wings to stop the heading deviation at -0.8° as soon as it begins.
What happened: Heading wandered off during the initial climb and the drift was still present through the second climb segment, which usually keeps the runway track unrestored.
Watch for: Heading indicator, holding runway track within a few degrees
Arrival
Add power on short final to hold 78 kt over the threshold instead of letting speed decay.
What happened: Threshold speed was 8 kt below the 78 kt target, and the sink was arrested at 18 ft while already slow, so the aircraft settled as the speed ran out, producing a firm touchdown at 329 fpm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 78 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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 60 kt, 10 kt below the 70 kt target, and lifted off at 67 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 1.9° 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 304 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 269 m of runway left; then climbing at 610 fpm on average to 304 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 985 m runway.
Rolled from 76 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.6 m right, in 8 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 39 % 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: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 4°, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 23 kt above the approach speed of 78 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap until 2.2 nm, high until 1.0 nm, sinking too fast until 0.7 nm, left of the centreline from 1.4 nm and slow from 0.2 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 3.0 nm, where the final began, to 1.6 nm, then high to 1.0 nm (up to 380 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 1,505 m right of the centreline at 3.0 nm, then inside it from 1.7 to 1.4 nm, then 92 m left of it from 1.4 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 39 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 3.0 nm, where the final began, to 1.8 nm, then fast to 0.7 nm (up to +36 kt), then inside the band to 0.2 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −8 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
The flare wandered off the target profile. The flare took all the sink out 18 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 334 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 298 m past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
4 kt across from the right, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 62 kt. Touched down with the nose 6° into wind, 5° of bank.
Wind 020° at 11 kt · 10 kt head · 4 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 52 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 28 s, an average deceleration of 0.04 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 34 ft, 87 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 298 m in, close to 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 300 fpm at the flare to 10 fpm at 18 ft, then back up to 330 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.8° 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 first 1,524 m of the 1,874 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5 m left of the centreline and drifted to 11 m right on 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 298 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 329 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Piper PA-28 Arrow III departed from runway 32 at LFLE Chambéry Challes-les-Eaux Airfield. Takeoff used 400 m, 41 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 60 kt. Local weather was 14 °C with wind 10 kt from 019°, giving a crosswind component of 8 kt and a headwind component of 6 kt.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 29 seconds, averaging 530 fpm and reaching 81 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 991 ft asl to 1,407 ft asl in 3 minutes while covering 5 nm, passing overhead La Ravoire.
During descent for the final approach to runway 36 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,253 ft agl to -291 ft agl in 117 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, sink rate, on speed, and wings level; they were not met for landing flap (at one gate), on glideslope (at one gate), and on centreline. At 834 ft agl the aircraft was in final flap position 2 and was flying 113 kt.
Landing on runway 36 was made with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was a little below target at 70 kt. The flare was described as a fair landing flare; the aircraft ran out of speed in the flare. Touchdown occurred 298 m down the runway at 62 kt, with a firm rate of -329 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 5.4 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 872 m, 47 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 11.7 m from the centreline.
Local weather at landing was 14 °C with wind 11 kt from 020°, giving a crosswind component of 4 kt and a headwind component of 10 kt. After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 9 nm in 5 minutes and used 0 kg of fuel.
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