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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 6,233 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,644 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the TBM 930 began with a taxi from the parking area to the runway at KICT Wichita Eisenhower National Airport, which took 11 minutes to cover a distance of 2 nm. The departure roll was from runway 19R, with a takeoff distance of 1,857 ft (18% of the runway) at a liftoff speed of 96 kn. The local weather at departure included a temperature of 60 °F and winds at 5 kn from 50 °, with a 2 kn crosswind and a 4 kn tailwind.
The enroute climb started over KICT Wichita Eisenhower National Airport, climbing from 2,351 ft to 23,221 ft, covering 48 nm in 13 minutes. The enroute level cruise began 10 miles northeast of SN58 Foster Field El Dorado and lasted 7 minutes, covering 37 nm. The enroute descent started 2 miles south of Lebo, descending from 23,305 ft to 2,937 ft, covering 67 nm in 16 minutes. Another enroute level cruise started overhead Merriam and lasted 3 minutes, covering 7 nm.
The landing was on runway 01 at KMKC Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, with a runway length of 6,233 ft. The threshold height was 59 ft agl, with a speed at threshold of 82 kn. The touchdown occurred 1,641 ft from the threshold at a speed of 75 kn, with a VSI of -339 ft/m. The local weather at landing included a temperature of 55 °F and winds at 6 kn from 39 °, with a 3 kn crosswind and a 5 kn headwind. The total landing distance was 2,078 ft (33% of the runway).
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 14 minutes to cover less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 167 nm, taking 95 minutes and using 445 lbs of fuel.
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