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Adjust power to bring the approach speed onto 86 kt and hold it through the gates.
What happened: The approach speed deviated from the target through the stabilisation gates. This kind of deviation usually carries through to an unstable threshold crossing.
Watch for: Watch the airspeed indicator against 86 kt.
Departure
Lower the nose and add power to accelerate back to climb speed.
What happened: Climb speed was slower than the target during the climb.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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 500 ft gate: speed 8 kt SLOW on the reference speed of 86 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 6,304 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,464 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cirrus Vision SF50 taxied from the parking area to runway 08 at KDEN Denver International Airport, a movement that lasted 16 minutes and covered 6 nm.
Departure roll on runway 08 was completed with a takeoff distance of 3,351 ft, representing 28 % of the runway, and liftoff was achieved at 94 kt; local weather reported a temperature of 69 °F, wind 10 kt from 200°, a 10 kt crosswind component and a 3 kt tailwind component.
Climb began 2 mi north-east of KDEN, with the aircraft ascending from 6,285 ft asl to 30,000 ft asl, an increase of 23,715 ft achieved in 21 minutes while covering 75 nm.
The first cruise segment started 7 mi west of 4CO2 Owl Canyon Gliderport and continued for 53 minutes, during which 270 nm were flown.
Descent commenced 6 mi south of WY30 Kinky Creek Divide Airport, with altitude decreasing from 29,488 ft asl to 12,821 ft asl, a loss of 16,667 ft in 11 minutes over a distance of 55 nm.
A second cruise phase was initiated 23 mi north of WY30 Kinky Creek Divide Airport, lasting 10 minutes and covering 36 nm.
The next descent started 17 mi north-east of KJAC Jackson Hole Airport, dropping from 12,291 ft asl to 7,781 ft asl, a reduction of 4,510 ft in 6 minutes while traveling 14 nm.
Final approach to runway 19 at KJAC was executed from the north, on a heading of 199.0° at 4 nm and 1,361 ft agl.
Landing on runway 19 at KJAC, which is 6,304 ft long, occurred with a threshold height of 57 ft agl slightly above target and a threshold speed of 79 kt slightly below target; touchdown distance was 1,463 ft, touchdown speed 64 kt, touchdown rate minus 180 fpm, and the touchdown point was misaligned by 26 ft from the centreline. Local weather at the time was a temperature of 54 °F, wind 2 kt from 200°, with no crosswind and a 2 kt headwind component.
The total landing roll measured 1,858 ft, equivalent to 29 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was off by 29 ft from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 463 nm, required 121 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 775 lb of fuel.
The final approach to runway 19 at KJAC was flown from the north on a heading of 199.0° at 4 NM and 1,361 ft agl; at the 1,000 ft gate the approach was assessed as stabilised, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
At threshold the aircraft was slightly high, the threshold height measuring 57 ft agl and being slightly above target, while the threshold speed was slightly low at 79 kt, a small deviation from the expected value.
Touchdown occurred 1,463 ft down the runway at a speed of 64 kt and a vertical rate of minus 180 fpm, both judged good; the total landing distance was 1,858 ft, representing 29 % of the 6,304-ft runway. The touchdown point was offset 26 ft from the centreline.
During rollout the aircraft remained slightly off the centreline, with a measured misalignment of 29 ft.
Refine centreline tracking to reduce the 26-ft touchdown offset and the 29-ft rollout deviation, which will tighten alignment without affecting the already excellent stabilised approach and speed control.
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