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Shorten the long landing
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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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.
Side view — the last 1,918 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,918 m of the 2,996 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,444 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the TBM 930 started with a quick taxi from the parking area to the runway at EDNY Friedrichshafen Airport, taking only 2 minutes and covering less than 1 nm. The departure roll was from runway 24, with a takeoff distance of 481 m, which equated to 26% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 79 kn. The local weather at the time showed a temperature of 4 °C with a wind speed of 16 kn at 30°, resulting in a crosswind of 8 kn and a tailwind of 14 kn.
The enroute climb began overhead Friedrichshafen in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. The climb took the aircraft from 2,348 ft asl to 4,538 ft asl, covering 3 nm and gaining 2,189 ft in just 1 minute. The aircraft then began the descent over Immenstaad am Bodensee, descending from 4,810 ft asl to 3,110 ft asl, a drop of 1,700 ft over 2 minutes and covering 9 nm.
The landing was on runway 21 at EDTL Lahr Airport, which had a runway length of 2,996 m. The height at the threshold was 51 ft agl, and the speed at the threshold was 104 kn. The touchdown occurred 1,442 m from the threshold at a speed of 84 kn, with a VSI of -253 ft/m. The local weather showed a temperature of 7 °C with a wind speed of 11 kn at 40°, resulting in a crosswind of 2 kn and a tailwind of 11 kn. The total landing distance covered was 1,824 m, which was 61% of the runway length.
After landing, the taxi from the runway to the parking area took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 85 nm, taking a total of 65 minutes and consuming 166 kg of fuel.
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