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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 134 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 39 kt fast at 173 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 134 kt in the climb
Arrival
Ease the pitch and add power earlier on final to arrest the descent rate before reaching the stabilisation gate.
What happened: On the approach, the aircraft's sink rate exceeded the stabilised gate limit, tripping a sink-rate fault at the gate check.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, stabilised descent rate approaching the gate
See Arrival Approach
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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2 landings
The flight is kept as it was recorded: it ends when the engine is shut down, so a landing with the rotors turning is a stop along the way, not a new flight.
| # | Where | Into flight | Touchdown | Ground speed | Sideways | On the ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOWZ · Zell am See Airfield | 8:50 | 438 ft/min | 5.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 3:08 |
| 2 | LOWZ · Zell am See Airfield | 12:28 | 639 ft/min | 7.2 kt | 1.6 kt | End of flight |
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 92 kt, 5 kt above the 87 kt target, and lifted off at 94 kt 0.6 s later, the nose coming up at 7.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 173 kt, 39 kt over its 134 kt target.
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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 649 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,860 m of runway left; gear up at 21 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 810 fpm on average to 649 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,834 m runway.
Rolled from 104 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 4 m right. Airborne 24 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven 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: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.9 nm, about 1,190 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the sink rate.
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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 540 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 m off the centreline.
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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −9 kt and +43 kt on the approach speed of 83 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.6 points, mostly for taking the sink out 12 ft agl above the runway.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
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 82 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 15 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 25 ft, 24 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 477 m in, 172 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 220 fpm at the flare to 20 fpm at 12 ft, then back up to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.7° 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 2,758 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 17 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 477 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 09 at SVBM Barquisimeto International Airport in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 09, the TBM 930 accelerated to a liftoff speed of 95 kt and left the ground after a takeoff distance of 711 m, which represented 25 % of the runway; local weather reported a temperature of 27 °C, wind 2 kt from 69°, with a 0 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
Climb commenced 1 mile east of SVBM Barquisimeto International Airport, with the aircraft ascending from 2,707 ft asl to 7,032 ft asl, an increase of 4,325 ft achieved in 5 minutes while covering 19 nm.
The first level cruise began 6 miles east of Yaritagua (Estado Yaracuy, Venezuela) and continued for 67 minutes, during which the flight covered 271 nm.
Descent started 23 miles south-west of SVBC General José Antonio Anzoategui International Airport, Barcelona (Estado Anzoategui, Venezuela), with the aircraft descending from 7,393 ft asl to 3,091 ft asl, a loss of 4,302 ft in 5 minutes while traversing 18 nm.
A second level cruise was initiated 12 miles south-east of SVBC General José Antonio Anzoategui International Airport and lasted 3 minutes, covering 9 nm.
The final approach to runway 33 at SVBC General José Antonio Anzoategui International Airport was flown from the south-east, on a heading of 323.0° at 4 nm and 1,797 ft agl.
Landing on runway 33 was executed with a runway length of 2,758 m; the threshold speed was slightly above target at 90 kt, touchdown occurred 69 m beyond the touchdown zone at 79 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 153 fpm; runway touchdown alignment was very good, local weather reported a temperature of 27 °C, wind 0 kt from 360°, with no crosswind or headwind.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect and the total landing distance measured 865 m, representing 31 % of the runway.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 323 nm, took 88 minutes, and consumed 265 kg of fuel.
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