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Add power on short final to hold 85 kt at the threshold rather than letting speed decay.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 74 kt against a target of 85 kt, below reference speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, hold 85 kt down to the threshold.
Departure
Rotate the moment the speed tape reaches 70 kt, not after it.
What happened: Rotation was held until 94 kt, 24 kt past the 70 kt rotation target. Carrying that much extra speed into rotation usually adds unwanted energy right at liftoff.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,579 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 256 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA42 Twin Star taxied from the parking area to runway 28R at KFLL, completing the movement in less than 1 minute and covering less than 1 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 28R, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 94 kt and using 710 m of runway, which is 28 % of the available length. Local conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, giving a head-wind component of 2 kt and no cross-wind.
Climb began overhead KFLL, with the airplane ascending from 606 ft asl to 3,146 ft asl, a gain of 2,540 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 4 nm.
Level cruise was established over Hollywood, lasting 15 minutes and encompassing 39 nm of flight.
Descent commenced 3 miles east of Key Biscayne, descending from 3,003 ft asl to 1,603 ft asl, a loss of 1,401 ft in 3 minutes and covering 7 nm.
The final approach to runway 30 at KMIA was flown from the southeast on a heading of 298.0°, at 4 nm and 1,596 ft agl.
The aircraft touched down on runway 30, whose length is 2,579 m; the threshold height of 56 ft agl and threshold speed of 74 kt were slightly above target. Touchdown occurred 253 m down the runway at a speed of 63 kt, with a hard touchdown rate of minus 457 fpm and perfect alignment.
Rollout distance measured 433 m, representing 17 % of the runway, and alignment during the rollout was very good.
In total, the flight covered 55 nm, took 23, and used 15 kg of fuel.
The Diamond DA42 Twin Star, scored 93.7 %, entered the final approach to runway 30 at KMIA from the south-east on a heading of 298.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,596 ft agl. Local conditions were 20 °C with wind 3 kt from 226°, a 3 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind. The approach was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate because flaps were not set and the sink rate was too high.
At the threshold the aircraft encountered a height of 56 ft agl, which was slightly above target, and a threshold speed of 74 kt, also slightly above target, on a runway 2,579 m long.
Touchdown occurred 253 m down the runway, a good distance, with a speed of 63 kt that met the target. The touchdown rate was hard, recorded as minus 457 fpm, while runway touchdown alignment was perfect. Total landing distance measured 433 m, representing 17 % of the runway length.
Rollout alignment was very good, maintaining centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
Correct the unstable approach by deploying flaps and moderating sink rate before the 1,000 ft gate, and refine flare technique to lessen the hard touchdown rate while preserving the excellent alignment and speed.
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