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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 151 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 228 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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: seven 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. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate 1,799 fpm, more than the glideslope needed, glideslope 6.3° against the runway's 3° and centreline 1.6° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 7,173 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,256 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed KJFK John F Kennedy International Airport on runway 31R. Take-off was completed after a roll of 1,015 ft, which was 11 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 97 kt. The local weather at departure was temperature 66 °F, wind 26 kt from 319°, giving a headwind component of 24 kt and a cross-wind component of 8 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 32 seconds, averaging 1,491 fpm and reaching 115 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 977 ft asl to 30,012 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 43 nm while remaining overhead KJFK. Level cruise was held at 30,000 ft asl for 22 minutes, covering 79 nm, beginning about 2 mi north-east of Roosevelt.
Descent began from 30,122 ft asl and proceeded to 1,889 ft asl in 28 minutes, covering 93 nm. The descent started 1 mi south-east of 4PS7 Cohen Airport Oxford and included a brief level-off at 5,200 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 01 at KDCA Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport started from 2,077 ft agl and descended to 33 ft agl in 91 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were: gear down, landing flap, on speed, wings level - met; sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline - not met. The aircraft was in final flap position 2 at 2,892 ft agl with a speed of 150 kt.
Landing on runway 01 was completed with a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 84 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 1,255 ft down the runway at 68 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 229 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was very good and no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 2,103 ft, representing 29 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The overall flight covered 222 nm in 79 minutes and used 553 lb of fuel.
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