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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 105 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 184 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 14 stages, 13 in the score
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,749 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 487 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TBM 850 departed LICA Lamezia Terme Airport on runway 10. The take-off roll was 800 m, 27 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 87 kt. Local weather was 16 °C with a 2 kt wind from 270°, a 0 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 44 seconds, averaging 1,181 fpm and reaching 126 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,267 ft asl to 27,948 ft asl in 24 minutes, covering 67 nm, beginning about 1 mile east of LICA.
Cruise was level at 28,000 ft asl for 28 minutes, covering 138 nm, starting roughly 3 miles east of Crotone. Descent from 28,000 ft asl to 950 ft asl took 14 minutes over 52 nm, beginning 17 miles west of Fier.
On final approach to runway 17 at LATI Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa, descent from 1,232 ft agl to 318 ft agl occurred in 82 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Gear was down at 1,192 ft agl with a speed of 147 kt; final flap position 2 was selected at 1,120 ft agl with a speed of 142 kt.
Landing was on runway 17, whose length is 2,749 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was slightly below target at 86 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 48 m beyond the touchdown zone at 66 kt, with a descent rate of minus 184 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 728 m, 26 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was 15 °C with a 2 kt wind from 270°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 0 kt headwind.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 265 nm in 73 minutes and used 201 kg of fuel.
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