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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 321 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 288 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,959 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 503 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with taxiing from the parking to the runway at El Paso International Airport, taking 21 minutes and covering 6 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Vision Jet, then departed from runway 22, with a takeoff distance of 767 meters, which was 24% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 92 knots.
As the aircraft climbed, it started 1 mile south of Fort Bliss, Texas, and reached an altitude of 21,182 feet above sea level, increasing by 16,262 feet in 14 minutes and covering 43 nautical miles. The local weather conditions at the time were a temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 4 knots at 150 degrees.
The enroute climb was followed by a level cruise, which started 14 miles northwest of Homestead Meadows South Airport in Texas and lasted 5 minutes, covering 24 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, starting 20 miles southeast of Alamogordo Airport in New Mexico, and descended from 21,176 feet to 9,078 feet above sea level, a decrease of 12,098 feet in 5 minutes and covering 25 nautical miles.
The flight continued with multiple level cruises and descents, with the aircraft cruising at various altitudes and covering different distances. The final approach to runway 21 at Roswell Air Center Airport was made from the northeast, with a heading of 225.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,116 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 21 was made with a threshold speed that was excessively high at 94 knots, and the touchdown point was 72 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed was 81 knots, which was fast, and the touchdown rate was fair at -248 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, but the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 7.8 meters from the centerline.
The total landing distance was 734 meters, which was 19% of the runway. The taxiing to the parking from the runway took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 175 nautical miles, taking 64 minutes, and the aircraft used 204 kilograms of fuel.
The Vision Jet aircraft successfully landed at KROW Roswell Air Center Airport, achieving a score of 93.9%. The final approach was initiated from the north-east, heading 225.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,116 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft successfully touched down on runway 21, which has a length of 3,959 meters.
The threshold height was reported as good, but the threshold speed was excessively high at 94 knots. This indicates that the pilot may have been able to improve the landing by reducing the speed before touchdown. The touchdown point was 72 meters beyond the touchdown zone, which suggests that the pilot may have been able to improve the accuracy of the landing. The touchdown speed of 81 knots was also reported as fast, indicating that the pilot may have been able to reduce the speed before touchdown.
The touchdown rate of -248 feet per minute (fpm) was considered fair, suggesting that the pilot may have been able to improve the rate of descent before touchdown. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, indicating that the pilot was able to align the aircraft with the runway centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were reported as follows: temperature 24°C, wind 3 knots at 170°, crosswind 2 knots, and headwind 2 knots. These conditions were relatively calm, which may have contributed to the successful landing.
The total landing distance was 734 meters, which is 19% of the runway length. This suggests that the pilot was able to bring the aircraft to a stop relatively quickly after touchdown. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 7.8 meters from the centerline, indicating that the pilot may have been able to improve the alignment of the aircraft during the rollout phase.
Overall, the Vision Jet aircraft demonstrated a high level of proficiency during the landing, but there were some areas for improvement, including reducing the threshold speed, improving the accuracy of the touchdown point, and reducing the touchdown speed and rate of descent.
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