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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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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.
At the 500 ft gate: no landing flap set, off the runway's 3° glideslope and off the centreline.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 573 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 573 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 56 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 taxied to runway 02 at AYGH Guhu Airstrip and commenced the take-off roll, covering 327 m which represents 57 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 67 kt. Ambient conditions were 19 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 214°, no cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
After departure the aircraft entered the climb phase overhead AYGH, ascending from 4,086 ft ASL to 6,333 ft ASL - a gain of 2,247 ft - in 1 minute while traversing 3 nm.
Level cruise began 2 mi east of AYGH and was maintained for 2 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 4 nm.
The descent commenced 6 mi east of AYGH, with the aircraft descending from 7,004 ft ASL to 4,225 ft ASL, a loss of 2,779 ft in 4 minutes while covering 11 nm.
Final approach to runway 20 was executed from the north-east, on a heading of 7.0° at 0 nm and 281 ft AGL, under the same weather conditions of 19 °C, wind 1 kt from 214°, and no cross-wind.
Landing on runway 20, which is 573 m long, was performed with a threshold speed of 60 kt, a touchdown distance of 53 m and a touchdown speed of 55 kt. The aircraft touched down at a rate of minus 47 fpm and was offset by 3.2 m from the centreline. Total landing distance recorded was 255 m, representing 45 % of the runway.
Runway rollout was completed with perfect alignment, and the aircraft came to a stop within the remaining runway length.
In total the flight covered 37 nm, required 16 minutes, and consumed -36 kg of fuel.
The Kodiak 100 performed its final approach to runway 20 at AYGH Guhu Airstrip from the north-east, maintaining a heading of 7.0° at 0 nm and 281 ft agl. Local weather was 19 °C with wind 1 kt from 214°, giving a crosswind component of 0 kt and a headwind component of 1 kt, and the overall landing score was 97.0%.
Threshold height was good and the aircraft crossed the threshold at a speed a little below target at 60 kt.
Touchdown occurred 53 m from the runway threshold with a speed of 55 kt, a rate of minus 47 fpm, and a total landing distance of 255 m, representing 45 % of the 573 m runway. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.2 m from the centreline.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect.
Focus on tightening the touchdown alignment to reduce the 3.2 m lateral offset and adjust the approach speed to meet the target, which will further improve the already high score.
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