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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
Arrival
Lower the gear before the stabilisation gate, not after.
What happened: Gear was not down at the stabilisation gates on approach.
Watch for: Gear indicator: down and locked before the gate
See Arrival Approach
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 · 16 stages, 14 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 1.8° and 12.4°, and the speed between 104 kt and 140 kt.
Once clear of the runway the nose moved through a wide range, and the speed moved with it. Set the climb attitude, hold it and trim, and give the speed a few seconds to settle before correcting it with a degree or two of pitch. Chasing the airspeed with large pitch changes makes it wander more.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,021 m runway.
Rolled from 795 m in, drifted 2.4 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 69 % 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 948 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 319 m of runway left; then climbing at 910 fpm on average to 948 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 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: 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: gear still up and speed more than 26 kt above the approach speed of 86 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.7 nm, about 280 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 3.1° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 70 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: 3.1° here, which is about 330 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 1,116 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 1.6 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 4 nm to 0.7 nm (up to +69 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,664 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 45 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 22 ft. Touched down 420 m in, 116 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 1,664 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 500 fpm at the flare to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.7° on the way down. Into the flare at 87 kt, on the 86 kt approach speed, and 76 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 1,664 m of the 2,687 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.2 m of it down the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 2.1° of bank.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 1 kt head · 1 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way. 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 420 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 77 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 55 s, an average deceleration of 0.05 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 from the parking area to the departure runway at LFRN Rennes-Saint-Jacques Airport in 17 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 10, the aircraft used 1,412 m of runway, representing 70 % of the available length, and lifted off at 92 kt; ambient conditions were 16 °C with a 2 kt wind from 269°, no cross-wind and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
Climb commenced one mile north of Chatillon-sur-Seiche, where the airplane rose from 1,117 ft asl to 14,462 ft asl, a gain of 13,344 ft achieved in 11 minutes while traversing 25 nm.
Cruise began two miles north-west of Notre-Dame-des-Landes and lasted 5 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 13 nm at level flight.
The first en-route descent started one mile north of Saint-Ganton; altitude decreased from 14,480 ft asl to 2,991 ft asl, a loss of 11,489 ft in 7 minutes over 24 nm.
A subsequent descent segment began overhead Carquefou, with the aircraft descending from 2,995 ft asl to 678 ft asl, a reduction of 2,317 ft in 3 minutes while covering 7 nm.
On final approach to runway 21 at LFRS Nantes Atlantique Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,426 ft agl to 59 ft agl in 109 seconds and successfully met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing on runway 21 was executed with a threshold speed of 90 kt; touchdown occurred 419 m down the runway at 76 kt with a vertical speed of minus 152 fpm, and the total landing distance measured 1,564 m (58 % of the runway). Weather at the time was 15 °C with a 2 kt wind from 270°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind component.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as perfect, confirming the aircraft remained on the centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 81 nm, required 40 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 103 kg of fuel.
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