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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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Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 802 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 802 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 216 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Tecnam P2008 JC taxied from the parking area to runway 26R at LSZL Locarno Airport in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 26R the aircraft used 397 m of runway, representing 49 % of the available length, and lifted off at 56 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 19 °C, wind 5 kt from 160°, a cross-wind component of 5 kt and a tail-wind component of 1 kt.
Climb commenced overhead Magadino (Ticino, Switzerland), with the aircraft ascending from 1,147 ft asl to 2,349 ft asl - a gain of 1,201 ft - in 2 minutes while covering 2 nm.
Level cruise began still over Magadino and continued for 2 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled another 2 nm.
Descent started over Contone (Ticino, Switzerland), with altitude decreasing from 2,014 ft asl to 1,136 ft asl - a loss of 878 ft - in 2 minutes and a distance of 2 nm.
The final approach to runway 26R at LSZL was executed from the east, on a heading of 258.0° at 1 nm and 478 ft agl.
Landing was made on runway 26R, whose length is 802 m. The threshold speed was 55 kt, touchdown occurred 213 m down the runway at 37 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 47 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was very good. Weather at the time was a temperature of 19 °C, wind 2 kt from 156°, a cross-wind component of 2 kt and a tail-wind component of 1 kt.
In total the flight covered 8 nm, taking 6 minutes, and used 0 kg of fuel.
The aircraft Tecnam P2008 JC established a final approach to runway 26R at LSZL Locarno Airport from the east, tracking a heading of 258.0° at 1 nm and 478 ft AGL.
At threshold the height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 55 kt.
Touchdown occurred 213 m down the runway at a speed of 37 kt, which was good, with a touchdown rate of -47 fpm that was perfect, and runway touchdown alignment was very good.
Maintain the current technique while fine-tuning the touchdown point toward the typical 300 m aim point to optimise runway usage, and continue to monitor the modest cross-wind component to preserve alignment consistency.
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