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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 66 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 54 kt, 12 kt before the 66 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 66 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
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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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 54 kt, 12 kt before the 66 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,874 m runway.
Rolled from 83 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 7.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.9 m left, in 7 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 17 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to 129 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,346 m of runway left; then climbing at 600 fpm on average to 129 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.
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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with six 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 34 kt above the approach speed of 67 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off, wings more than 10° from level and speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 67 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: banked until 1.5 nm, fast from 3.3 nm, high from 2.2 nm, left of the centreline from 0.5 nm and sinking too fast 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 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 2.2 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 520 ft over).
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 1,792 m right of the centreline, then inside it from 0.9 to 0.5 nm, then 18 m left of it from 0.5 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 3.3 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +48 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
The flare strayed well off the target profile
The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.8° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 220 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 985 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 17 ft. Touched down 220 m in, 85 m short of 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 985 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 550 fpm at the flare to 440 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed. Into the flare at 75 kt, 8 kt over the 67 kt approach speed, and 72 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 full 985 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.9 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.3 m right at the widest. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 8.6° of bank.
Wind 315° 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.
The 220 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.14 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 78 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.20 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 DR40 departed from runway 36 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport. The take-off roll was 333 m, which is 18 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 53 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 38 °C, wind 8 kt from 235°, with a 7 kt crosswind and a 4 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 12 seconds, averaging 911 fpm and reaching 66 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 974 ft asl to 1 973 ft asl in 3 minutes while covering 5 nm, passing overhead LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport Viviers-du-Lac.
During cruise the aircraft proceeded toward LFLE Chambéry Challes-les-Eaux Airfield. Descent began from 1 071 ft agl and continued to 125 ft agl in 133 seconds.
Stabilisation checks were performed at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. The checks that were met were gear down and sink rate. The checks not met were glideslope (at one gate), centreline, speed, and wings level (at one gate). At 832 ft agl the aircraft extended flap position 2, with an airspeed of 109 kt.
The aircraft landed on runway 14 at LFLE Chambéry Challes-les-Eaux Airfield, whose length is 985 m. The threshold height was good. Threshold speed was well above target at 78 kt. The flare was poor; the aircraft was flown onto the runway with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 226 m from the threshold at a speed of 72 kt, which was fast, and with a hard rate of minus 459 fpm. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was temperature 37 °C, wind 2 kt from 315°, with 0 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 494 m, representing 50 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect. After landing, the DR40 taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 10 nm, lasted 8 minutes, and used 2 kg of fuel.
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