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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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,713 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 499 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, departing from runway 16L. The takeoff roll covered 2,492 meters, with a liftoff speed of 191 knots. The local weather at departure was 14°C with a 9 knot wind coming from 200°, resulting in a 3 knot crosswind and an 8 knot headwind.
The enroute climb started overhead Des Moines, Washington, climbing from 1,299 feet above sea level to 35,971 feet, covering a distance of 150 nautical miles in 25 minutes.
Upon reaching cruising altitude, the plane traveled for 55 minutes covering 428 nm, before beginning its descent from 39,477 feet to 34,049 feet over a distance of 54 nm in 7 minutes. The next cruising portion lasted 97 minutes, covering 771 nm.
Another descent phase occurred from 35,352 feet to 18,929 feet, over a distance of 52 nm in 11 minutes. This was followed by a shorter cruising phase of 62 minutes covering less than a nautical mile, before descending from 18,764 feet to 10,016 feet over 14 nm in 7 minutes.
The final descent began 2 miles east of Doering Farms Airfield in Wisconsin, descending from 8,715 feet to 2,387 feet over a distance of 20 nm in 8 minutes. The flight concluded at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, where the aircraft landed on runway 19R. The landing speed was 148 knots with a 41 feet above ground level threshold. The touchdown occurred 489 meters from the threshold at a speed of 142 knots, with a vertical speed indicator showing -500 ft/m.
The local weather at arrival was 14°C with a 20 knot wind at 149°, resulting in a 12 knot crosswind and a 16 knot headwind. The total landing distance covered was 1,319 meters, accounting for 49% of the runway length. Finally, the taxiing back to the parking area from the runway took 3 minutes.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 1,520 nautical miles, taking 1,174 minutes and consuming 10,688 kg of fuel.
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