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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 43 kt fast at 177 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 134 kt in the climb
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.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 96 kt, 9 kt above the 87 kt target, and lifted off at 98 kt 0.7 s later, the nose coming up at 7.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 177 kt, 43 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 716 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,580 m of runway left; gear up at 10 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 860 fpm on average to 716 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 2,444 m runway.
Rolled from 117 m in, never more than 0.9 m off the centreline. Airborne 28 % 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: five 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: speed more than 25 kt above the approach speed of 83 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.0 nm, about 290 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° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 3.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 150 ft below 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,510 m left of the centreline at 3.2 nm, then inside the band from 1.8 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.2 nm, where the final began, to 1.0 nm (up to +137 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
Touchdown
The flare held the target profile well. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.9° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 328 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 065° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 0 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 80 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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.
Crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 17 ft. Touched down 328 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 320 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 2,997 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.4 m of it down 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 328 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TBM-930 taxied from the parking area to runway 11 at TTCP A.N.R. Robinson International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 11, the aircraft used 693 m of runway (28 % of the available length) and lifted off at 99 kt; ambient temperature was 27 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 060°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced 1 mile east of the airport, with the aircraft ascending from 761 ft asl to 4 499 ft asl-a gain of 3 738 ft-in 5 minutes while covering 21 nm.
The first level-cruise segment began 11 nm south of the departure airport, lasted 32 minutes and spanned 137 nm.
Descent started 49 nm south-east of Tucupita, dropping from 4 491 ft asl to 2 500 ft asl, a loss of 1 991 ft in 3 minutes over 14 nm.
A second cruise leg originated 2 nm north-west of Manoa, persisted for 20 minutes and covered 84 nm.
The next descent began 10 nm south-east of SVGT Guasipati Airport, decreasing altitude from 2 388 ft asl to 1 499 ft asl-a reduction of 889 ft-in 2 minutes across 5 nm.
A brief cruise segment started 11 nm west of SVTM Tumeremo Airport, lasted 3 minutes and encompassed 10 nm.
Final approach to runway 08 at SVTM Tumeremo Airport was flown from the south-west on a heading of 66.0° at 1 nm and 620 ft agl; the aircraft then descended from 1 148 ft agl to 257 ft agl in 88 seconds and was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 08 was achieved with a threshold speed of 88 kt; touchdown occurred 326 m down the runway at 78 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 99 fpm and perfect runway-alignment; local conditions were 26 °C, wind 2 kt from 065°, zero cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind; total landing distance was 670 m (22 % of runway).
Runway rollout alignment remained perfect, and the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 280 nm, required 70 minutes of elapsed time and consumed 239 kg of fuel.
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