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Monitor your taxi speed
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
Side view — the last 1,523 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,523 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 277 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Cessna-140 RA began with a 3-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at KFCM Flying Cloud Airport. The departure roll on runway 10R covered a distance of 520 ft, which was 10% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was recorded at 34 knots. The local weather at the time indicated a temperature of 59°F with wind speeds of 1 knot coming from 269°, resulting in a slight tailwind.
The pilot proceeded with a right-hand pattern entry from runway 10R, covering a distance of less than 1 nm in just 14 seconds. This was followed by a right-hand pattern crosswind, covering a similar distance in 26 seconds. The pattern downwind turn was executed at a distance of 1 nm, with an angle to the runway of 69.8°. The downwind leg covered 2 nm in 82 seconds, leading to the base leg turn that covered a distance of 1 nm with an angle of 46.0° to the runway. The base leg itself was shorter, covering less than 1 nm in 20 seconds.
The final turn in the pattern was less than 1 nm in distance and took 57 seconds to complete. The landing on runway 10R at KFCM Flying Cloud Airport was successful, with a touchdown point located 899 ft from the threshold. The touchdown speed was 32 knots, with a vertical speed indicator reading of -139 ft/m. The total landing distance was 1,148 ft, which constituted 23% of the runway length. The weather conditions during landing were similar to the departure, with a 1 knot wind at 270°, resulting in a slight tailwind.
After landing, the taxi back to the parking area from the runway took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was calculated at 7 nm, which took a total of 59 minutes and consumed 3 lbs of fuel. Overall, the flight in the Cessna-140 RA was executed smoothly and efficiently, following standard procedures for takeoff, pattern flying, and landing.
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