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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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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 2,303 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 264 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 began with a 6-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at EPWA Okecie. The departure roll from runway 15 covered 698 meters, which was 23% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was 81 knots. The local weather at departure was 11°C with a 4-knot wind coming from 159°, resulting in a 1-knot crosswind and a 4-knot headwind.
The enroute climb started overhead Dawidy in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. The aircraft climbed from 999 feet above sea level to 4,460 feet, an increase of 3,461 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise commenced 1 mile northeast of Tarczyn and lasted 39 minutes, covering 101 nautical miles.
The enroute descent phase began 3 miles south of Ksiaz Wielki in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. The descent took the aircraft from 4,228 feet above sea level to 3,423 feet, a decrease of 806 feet in 2 minutes, covering 5 nautical miles. Another brief enroute level cruise followed, starting 3 miles north of Piotrkowice Wielkie and lasting 4 minutes, covering 6 nautical miles.
The landing took place on runway 25 at EPKK Balice, which has a length of 2,303 meters. The threshold height was 43 feet above ground level, and the speed at threshold was 81 knots. The touchdown occurred 261 meters from the threshold at a speed of 73 knots, with a vertical speed indicator reading of -255 ft/min. The local weather at landing was 17°C with a 13-knot wind coming from 250°, resulting in a 2-knot crosswind and a 13-knot headwind. The total landing distance was 918 meters, which was 40% of the runway length.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, which took 3 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance for the journey was 143 nautical miles, which took 79 minutes to complete. The flight consumed 264 kilograms of fuel during the operation.
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