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Work on the flare
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,026 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 427 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 from EPLL Lublinek to EPWA Okecie was smooth and efficient. The taxiing from the parking to the runway took 16 minutes and covered 1 nm. The departure roll on runway 25 at EPLL Lublinek was short, only 427 m (17% of the runway), with a liftoff speed of 81 kn. The local weather at departure was 17°C with a wind speed of 7 kn at 210°, resulting in a crosswind of 5 kn and a headwind of 6 kn.
The enroute climb started 1 mile west of EPLL Lublinek and lasted 2 minutes, during which the aircraft climbed from 1,222 ft to 3,264 ft, covering a distance of 5 nm. The enroute level cruise started overhead Lodz and lasted 25 minutes, covering 60 nm. The enroute descent began 1 mile northeast of Izabelin and lasted 2 minutes, during which the aircraft descended from 2,937 ft to 2,178 ft, covering 3 nm.
The landing on runway 15 at EPWA Okecie was smooth, with the aircraft touching down 426 m from the threshold at a speed of 62 kn and a VSI of -347 ft/m. The total landing distance was 836 m, which is 28% of the runway length. The local weather at landing was 18°C with a wind speed of 10 kn at 169°, resulting in a crosswind of 3 kn and a headwind of 10 kn.
After landing, taxiing from the runway to the parking took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 77 nm and the flight took 42 minutes, consuming 137 kg of fuel. Overall, the flight in the Douglas DC-3 was efficient and successful, with smooth operations from takeoff to landing.
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