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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 61 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 51 kt, 10 kt before the 61 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 61 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Steepen the descent on final to bring the aircraft back down to the glideslope and cross the threshold at 50 ft.
What happened: The approach was flown off the glideslope, and crossing the threshold high like this usually carries the touchdown long.
Watch for: Watch the VASI or PAPI glideslope indication against the threshold crossing height of 50 ft.
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 18 stages, 16 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 for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: glideslope 5.9° against the runway's 3°, centreline 1.1° off, against a 1° limit and speed 36 kt FAST on the reference speed of 63 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,195 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 491 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 26 at SOCA Cayenne - Félix Ebéoué Airport in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 26 the Cessna 172 used 434 m of runway, representing 14 % of the available length, and lifted off at 61 kt; ambient temperature was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
The flight’s descent began on final approach, dropping from 896 ft AGL to 153 ft AGL in 50 seconds and meeting the stabilisation gates.
The approach sequence was conducted as a left-hand pattern. Entry to the pattern from runway 26 required less than 1 nm in 12 seconds. The cross-wind leg covered 1 nm in 46 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 2 nm with a 115.2° angle to the runway, followed by a downwind leg of less than 1 nm completed in 19 seconds. The base-leg turn also measured 2 nm with a 31.5° angle to the runway, after which the aircraft established final approach to runway 26, descending as noted above.
Landing on runway 26 was recorded with a runway length of 3 194 m; the threshold height at 115 ft AGL was excessively over target and the threshold speed was high at 79 kt. Touchdown occurred 52 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 62 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 188 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 4.3 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 1 102 m, equivalent to 35 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was slightly off, with the aircraft deviating 7.8 m from the centreline before exiting the runway.
The aircraft taxied from the runway back to the parking area in 1 minute, traveling less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 9 nm, lasted 7 minutes, and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
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