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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
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.
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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: 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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 639 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 639 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 109 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 taxied from the parking area to the runway in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The aircraft departed from runway 10 at TFFJ Saint Barthélemy - Rémy de Haenen Airport. The takeoff roll required 230 m, representing 36 % of the runway, and liftoff was achieved at 68 kt. Ambient temperature was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270 °, no crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind component.
Climb commenced overhead the airport, ascending from 305 ft asl to 1,092 ft asl, a gain of 786 ft in 1 minute while covering 2 nm.
Level cruise began 2 miles north of the airport and continued for 2 minutes, during which 4 nm were flown.
Descent started 3 miles north-east of the airport, descending from 973 ft asl to 77 ft asl, a loss of 897 ft in 2 minutes and covering 4 nm.
Final approach to runway 28 was executed from the east, on a heading of 269.0 ° at 0 nm and 29 ft agl.
Touchdown on runway 28 occurred with a distance of 108 m and a speed of 58 kt, slightly above the target. The vertical speed at touchdown was minus 180 fpm and the touchdown point was offset 4.9 m from the centreline. Threshold speed was 68 kt and runway length is 639 m.
The aircraft rolled out over a total landing distance of 465 m, representing 73 % of the runway, with alignment described as very good.
Overall, the flight covered 10 nm, lasted 7 minutes, and consumed 20 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 28 at TFFJ Saint Barthélemy - Rémy de Haenen Airport was flown from the east on a heading of 269.0 ° with the aircraft at 0 nm and 29 ft AGL; the local weather was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270 °, giving a 2 kt headwind and no crosswind.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good height and a good threshold speed of 68 kt, establishing the flare in accordance with the approach parameters.
Touchdown occurred 108 m down the runway at a speed of 58 kt, noted as a little fast, with a good descent rate of minus 180 fpm; the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 4.9 m from the centreline.
The aircraft rolled out over a total landing distance of 465 m, representing 73 % of the 639 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
To refine an already strong performance, a modest reduction of touchdown speed would bring the aircraft closer to the target VREF, and a slight correction of lateral alignment would eliminate the 4.9 m offset from centreline.
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