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Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,694 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 251 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This flight was conducted in a Cessna 208B aircraft. Taxing from the parking area to the runway took approximately 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll from runway 21 at LFRS Nantes Atlantique Airport began, with a takeoff distance of 252 meters, which is 9% of the runway length. The liftoff speed achieved was 79 knots.
Upon takeoff, the aircraft encountered local weather conditions characterized by a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 11 knots at 189 degrees. However, the crosswind component was relatively low at 3 knots, and the wind was favorable in terms of headwind component, which was 10 knots.
As the aircraft commenced its enroute climb, it started 1 mile west of Pont-Saint-Martin in the Pays de la Loire region of France. The climb took place from an initial altitude of 1,062 feet to 2,220 feet, representing an increase of 1,158 feet, in a duration of 2 minutes and covering a distance of 5 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the flight entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles, starting 1 mile northeast of Saint-Lumine-de-Coutais. The level cruise concluded as the aircraft prepared for its enroute descent.
The enroute descent began overhead La Chevroliere in the Pays de la Loire region, with the aircraft descending from an altitude of 2,315 feet to 535 feet, a decrease of 1,780 feet, in a duration of 3 minutes and covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
As the flight approached its destination, the aircraft entered a final approach phase, heading towards runway 21 at LFRS Nantes Atlantique Airport from the northeast, at a heading of 207.0 degrees, and at 1 nautical mile from the runway.
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway with a touchdown distance of 251 meters, which was considered good. However, the touchdown speed recorded was higher than desired at 73 knots, and the touchdown rate was also higher than optimal at -170 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was found to be slightly misaligned with the centerline at 4.0 meters. The local weather conditions throughout the approach and landing phase remained relatively consistent, with a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 9 knots at 189 degrees. The crosswind component remained low at 3 knots, with a moderate headwind component of 9 knots.
The total landing distance recorded was 652 meters, which is 24% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was deemed very good throughout the landing sequence.
The total flight distance traveled was 16 nautical miles, which was completed within a duration of 11 minutes, and the aircraft utilized 33 kilograms of fuel throughout the flight.
The Cessna 208B successfully landed on runway 21 at LFRS Nantes Atlantique Airport from a position 1 nautical mile northeast, heading 207.0° at 438 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft scored 96.6% in the landing, indicating a near-perfect execution.
During the final approach, the pilot maintained a good threshold height, suggesting accurate control of the aircraft's descent. However, the threshold speed was slightly too high at 82 knots, implying that the pilot might have overshot the ideal landing speed.
On touchdown, the aircraft showed a satisfactory performance with a relatively short distance of 251 meters. The touchdown speed of 73 knots, however, was slightly elevated, indicating that the pilot might have been unable to maintain complete control over the descent and subsequent landing. The rate of descent at touchdown was good, coming in at -170 feet per minute (fpm), which should have helped in absorbing some of the impact.
The runway touchdown position was slightly off-center, deviating by 4 meters from the centerline. It is unclear whether this was due to pilot error or an outside factor such as wind or aircraft characteristics. Additionally, the crosswind component of 3 knots and the headwind component of 9 knots may have played a role in this slight misalignment, although the pilot did a good job in compensating for the wind.
In terms of overall landing distance, the aircraft's performance was satisfactory, covering 652 meters of the runway and representing only 24% of its total length. After touching down, the pilot executed a well-aligned rollout, showing excellent control over the aircraft's direction and speed.
Taking into account the local weather conditions, with a temperature of 19°C and wind blowing at 9 knots from 189°, the pilot performed a commendable job in landing the aircraft. Considering the aircraft's characteristics, the pilot's overall performance during the landing was very good, although there is room for improvement in optimizing the touchdown speed and maintaining better centerline alignment.
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