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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 107 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 81 kt against a target of 107 kt, running 26 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 107 kt.
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 16 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 13 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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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 513 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 513 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 52 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 taxied to runway 19 at AYPB Paiela Airport and commenced the take-off roll, covering 329 m which represents 64 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 66 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind from 270° at 1 kt, providing a cross-wind component of 1 kt and no head-wind component.
Climb began directly overhead the airport, with the aircraft accelerating from 6 457 ft asl to 8 182 ft asl, an altitude gain of 1 725 ft in one minute while traversing three nautical miles.
Descent was initiated two miles west of the field, descending from 8 182 ft asl to 6 761 ft asl, a loss of 1 421 ft over two minutes and a distance of five nautical miles.
During the final approach to runway 01, the aircraft reduced altitude from 605 ft agl to -9 ft agl in 36 seconds and met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Touchdown on runway 01 occurred with a threshold speed of 58 kt, slightly below the target. The aircraft contacted the surface after 47 m of rollout at 54 kt and a vertical speed of minus 42 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 14.1 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 338 m, equivalent to 66 % of the 513 m runway.
Rollout continued with a slight centreline deviation of 12.8 m, after which the aircraft completed the landing phase.
In total, the flight covered 9 nm, required approximately 5 minutes, and consumed 11 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 01 at Paiela Airport descended from 605 ft AGL to -9 ft AGL in 36 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates, contributing to the overall score of 84.1 %.
During the threshold and flare segment the aircraft maintained a good threshold height, while the threshold speed was a little below the target at 58 kt.
Touchdown occurred 47 m down the runway at a speed of 54 kt and a vertical rate of minus 42 fpm, which met the criteria for a good touchdown. The touchdown point was misaligned by 14.1 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total distance of 338 m, representing 66 % of the 513-m runway, and the aircraft was slightly misaligned by 12.8 m from the centreline during this phase.
Focus on maintaining centreline alignment both at touchdown and through rollout, and adjust the approach to achieve the target threshold speed more precisely; these refinements will help convert the solid performance into an even higher score.
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