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KTEB
Teterboro, United States
Elevation-9 ft asl
Weight761 kg
Fuel188 kg
Wind30° · 3 kn

Flight Score

83.50 %
KTEB
Teterboro, United States
Elevation-8 ft asl
Weight757 kg
Fuel183 kg
Wind29° · 3 kn
19 Sep 2026 0:05 4 nm H500C 5 kg
Departure Score
80.92 %
Enroute Score
90.38 %
Arrival Score
79.20 %

What went well

Touched down at 158 fpm — a soft arrival
No sideways movement at touchdown
Approach kept its airspeed on the way down — no fast, slow descent

What held you back

Departure Hover — Height held within 10 ft at 51 %, bank angle up to 10.8 ° at 66 %, −6.36 points
Arrival Hover — Height held within 12 ft at 37 %, Moved over the ground at 8.5 kt on average at 65 %, −4.32 points
Enroute Level — bank angle up to 50.6 ° at 79 %, −3.21 points

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Departure

Hold the hover height with small, early collective movements, and add pedal as you change power so the nose stays put.

What happened: The hover after lift-off wandered 9.9 ft around its height, against 4 ft for a steady one.

Watch for: Height above the ground, steady within 4 ft.

See Departure Hover

Arrival

Line up with the landing spot earlier, so the last part of the approach needs only gentle turns.

What happened: The steepest bank on the approach was 47°, against 20° for full marks.

Watch for: Bank angle: within 20° on the approach.

See Arrival Approach

The ground restricts the rotor's downwash, reducing the power needed to hover. The effect is strongest within about half a rotor diameter of the surface and mostly gone by one full diameter. This is why a collective setting that holds a hover at 3 feet won't hold it at 30 feet.

Read more in Basics of helicopter flight

Start to finish · 6 stages, 6 in the score

The flight story

Departure One segment per stage, in flight order — colour is the score band. Drag the bar to move along the flight, or click a stage card to open its detail. Arrival
Departure Hover 61.84Lifted into the hover and held it for 29 seconds, on average 18 ft above the spot, moving 403 ft over the ground.
ScoreDescriptionStartProfileEnd
70 % Moved over the ground at 8.0 kt on averageFull marks up to 5.0 kt
51 % Height held within 10 ftFull marks within 4 ft
66 % Steepest bank 11 °Full marks up to 6 °
Info Average height above the spot 18 ft3 ft min to max 32 ft 3 32 ft
Info Average ground speed 8 kt3 kt min to max 15 kt 4 15 kt
Info Average VSI 64 fpm-31 fpm min to max 184 fpm -7 -14 fpm
Info Average pitch angle -1.4 °-6.0 ° min to max 3.9 ° -4.0 -1.1 °
Info Average bank angle 3.2 °0.0 ° min to max 10.8 ° 7.3 5.0 °
Info Average g force 1.00 g0.91 g min to max 1.10 g 0.97 1.01 g
200 ft400 ftNLift-offClimb away
Seen from above, north up. Rings are distance from the lift-off point.
0102030400 s10 s20 s
Height above the ground, ft. The band is 4 ft either side of the average, 17.6 ft: a hover that stays inside it is steady.
Departure Transition 100.00Accelerated away from 16 kt to 60 kt, reaching 57 ft above the spot in 30 seconds.
ScoreDescriptionStartProfileEnd
100 % Steepest bank 11 °Full marks up to 15 °
100 % Sank at up to 88 fpm while accelerating awayFull marks up to 100 fpm
100 % Nose down by up to 12 °Full marks up to 15 °
Info Average height above the spot 42 ft24 ft min to max 57 ft 31 57 ft
Info Average ground speed 43 kt16 kt min to max 60 kt 16 60 kt
Info Average airspeed 36 kt14 kt min to max 51 kt 14 51 kt
Info Average VSI 117 fpm-88 fpm min to max 213 fpm -10 213 fpm
Info Average pitch angle -9.0 °-12.2 ° min to max 1.2 ° -3.1 -7.6 °
Info Average bank angle 2.8 °0.1 ° min to max 11.3 ° 1.0 0.6 °
Info Average g force 1.02 g0.96 g min to max 1.13 g 1.02 1.12 g
Enroute Level 90.38Enroute level cruise started overhead Hasbrouck Heights (New Jersey, United States) and lasted 1 minutes, covering 2 nm.
ScoreDescriptionStartProfileEnd
97 % Altitude held within ±502 ft of 294 ft asl50 ft asl min to max 951 ft asl 50 441 ft asl
100 % Average speed 81 kt51 kt min to max 127 kt 51 124 kt
79 % Average bank angle 11.1 °0.4 ° min to max 50.6 ° 0.7 0.4 °
99 % Average g force 1.05 g0.81 g min to max 1.44 g 1.12 1.15 g
Info Turn coordination 00 min to max 0 0 0
Info Average pitch angle -7.2 °-13.2 ° min to max 3.8 ° -7.7 -2.2 °
Arrival Approach 76.49The approach began 394 ft above the landing spot at 122 kt and slowed to 12 kt in 1.8 minutes, covering 2 nm.
ScoreDescriptionStartProfileEnd
0 % Steepest bank 47 °Full marks up to 20 °
88 % Fastest descent 941 fpmFull marks up to 800 fpm
100 % 0 % of the approach descending fast with little airspeedMore than 300 fpm down below 30 kt is where a helicopter can settle into its own downwash. Full marks up to 5 %
100 % Nose up by up to 6 °Full marks up to 15 °
Info Average height above the spot 87 ft50 ft min to max 398 ft 394 50 ft
Info Average ground speed 29 kt12 kt min to max 122 kt 122 12 kt
Info Average airspeed 30 kt16 kt min to max 122 kt 122 16 kt
Info Average VSI -85 fpm-941 fpm min to max 206 fpm -520 -145 fpm
Info Average pitch angle -0.7 °-7.8 ° min to max 6.2 ° -1.9 1.1 °
Info Average bank angle 6.3 °0.0 ° min to max 47.2 ° 0.1 7.1 °
Info Average g force 1.02 g0.86 g min to max 1.51 g 1.05 0.99 g
010020030040005,00010,000Steepest, 941 fpm down

Height above the lowest point against distance to run, both in ft. It kept its airspeed on the way down: nowhere was it slow and sinking fast.

Arrival Hover 61.12Hovered before the landing for 12 seconds, on average 29 ft above the spot, moving 186 ft over the ground.
ScoreDescriptionStartProfileEnd
65 % Moved over the ground at 8.5 kt on averageFull marks up to 5.0 kt
37 % Height held within 12 ftFull marks within 4 ft
86 % Steepest bank 8 °Full marks up to 6 °
Info Average height above the spot 29 ft10 ft min to max 50 ft 50 10 ft
Info Average ground speed 9 kt4 kt min to max 12 kt 12 4 kt
Info Average VSI -187 fpm-236 fpm min to max -145 fpm -147 -152 fpm
Info Average pitch angle 1.3 °-1.4 ° min to max 3.9 ° 1.0 3.0 °
Info Average bank angle 2.6 °0.0 ° min to max 8.0 ° 7.3 1.8 °
Info Average g force 1.00 g0.98 g min to max 1.02 g 0.99 0.99 g
100 ft200 ftNArriveSet down
Seen from above, north up. Rings are distance from where it set down.
02040600 s5 s10 s
Height above the ground, ft. The band is 4 ft either side of the average, 28.6 ft: a hover that stays inside it is steady.
Arrival Touchdown 100.00Touched down at 158 fpm with 0 kt over the ground.
ScoreDescriptionStartProfileEnd
100 % Touched down at 158 fpmFull marks up to 200 fpm
100 % Sideways at touchdown 0.0 ktFull marks up to 1.0 kt
100 % Forward at touchdown 0.0 ktFull marks up to 5.0 kt
Info Average height above the spot 8 ft0 ft min to max 10 ft 10 0 ft
Info Average ground speed 3 kt0 kt min to max 4 kt 4 0 kt
Info Average VSI -153 fpm-164 fpm min to max -10 fpm -153 -10 fpm
Info Average pitch angle 3.1 °0.5 ° min to max 4.2 ° 3.0 0.5 °
Info Average bank angle 1.5 °0.2 ° min to max 2.1 ° 1.8 0.2 °
Info Average g force 1.00 g0.98 g min to max 1.03 g 0.98 1.00 g
010203040-15 s-10 s-5 scontactAbout 180 fpm down
Height above the ground, ft, against time to contact. It met the ground at 158 fpm.
5 kt1 ktNose
Movement over the ground at contact, nose up. It was not moving over the ground. Inside the 1 kt ring sideways is full marks.

Lift-off & hover

50.60Hover heightsteady within 10 ft
69.50Hover drift8.0 kt
66.00Hover bank11°
100.00Sink moving off88 fpm
100.00Nose down12°

Approach

88.30Steepest descent941 fpm
100.00Slow and sinking0 %
0.00Bank47°
100.00Nose up6°
36.60Hover before landingsteady within 12 ft

Touchdown

100.00Rate at contact158 fpm
100.00Sideways drift0.0 kt
100.00Forward speed0.0 kt

From the flight's own track

Hover, approach and touchdown

Hover61.84

200 ft400 ftNLift-offClimb away
Seen from above, north up. Rings are distance from the lift-off point.
0102030400 s10 s20 s
Height above the ground, ft. The band is 4 ft either side of the average, 17.6 ft: a hover that stays inside it is steady.

Approach76.49

010020030040005,00010,000Steepest, 941 fpm down

Height above the lowest point against distance to run, both in ft. It kept its airspeed on the way down: nowhere was it slow and sinking fast.

Touchdown100.00

010203040-15 s-10 s-5 scontactAbout 180 fpm down
Height above the ground, ft, against time to contact. It met the ground at 158 fpm.
5 kt1 ktNose
Movement over the ground at contact, nose up. It was not moving over the ground. Inside the 1 kt ring sideways is full marks.

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Flight narrative

The aircraft entered a left-hand pattern for runway 06 at KTEB Teterboro Airport, covering less than 1 nm in 52 seconds.

It then proceeded on the left-hand crosswind leg for runway 06, again traveling less than 1 nm, this time in 15 seconds.

During the downwind turn the aircraft described a 45-degree angle to the runway of 60.6 °, covering a distance of 1 nm.

The downwind leg was flown for less than 1 nm and required 35 seconds to complete.

A base-leg turn followed, with a 45-degree angle to the runway of 39.2 °; the turn distance was recorded as 0 nm.

On final approach to runway 06 the aircraft descended from 189 ft agl to 89 ft agl in 13 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.

Landing was made on runway 06, whose length is 1,831 m; the threshold height at 82 ft agl was significantly above target and the threshold speed was 53 kt. Touchdown occurred 80 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 8 kt, with a good touchdown rate of minus 158 fpm, but the touchdown point was excessively misaligned by 172.7 m from the centreline. Local weather reported a temperature of 18 °C, wind 2 kt from 29°, a crosswind component of 1 kt and a headwind component of 2 kt.

In total the flight covered 3 nm, took 5 (units as given) and consumed 5 kg of fuel.

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