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Departure
On the roll, make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: On the roll the aircraft drifted 24 ft off the centreline, and heading then varied by -1.4° through the first climb segment; drifting off centreline on the roll like this usually carries a heading variation into the climb, which in turn usually carries extra bank into the second climb segment, seen here as 12°.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level and track straight through the climb
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 73 ft, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 86 ft.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
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.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set and centreline 17.3° off, against a 1° limit.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope 7.5° against the runway's 3° and centreline 10.3° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 2,077 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 2,077 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 147 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kitfox STI taxied to runway 28 at CFY4 Winters Aire Park Airport and commenced the departure roll. The aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 1,431 ft, representing 51 % of the runway, and lifted off at 62 kt. Ambient conditions were 48 °F with a wind from 187° at 6 kt, a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
Climbing from the departure field, the airplane rose from 3,600 ft asl to 5,153 ft asl, a gain of 1,553 ft achieved in 1 minute while covering 2 nm overhead CFY4 Winters Aire Park Airport Indus, Alberta, Canada.
Level cruise began approximately 1 mile north of CFY4 and continued for 5 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 7 nm at a steady altitude.
During final approach to runway 36 at CFX8 Chestermere (Kirkby Field) Airport, the descent proceeded from 1,232 ft agl to 16 ft agl in 64 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gates criteria.
The landing was executed on runway 36, whose length is 2,077 ft. The threshold speed recorded was 39 kt, well below the target, and touchdown occurred 114 ft down the runway at 36 kt with a descent rate of minus 193 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 83 ft from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 415 ft, equal to 20 % of the runway.
Rollout alignment remained off-centre by 86 ft from the centreline as the aircraft decelerated and exited the runway.
In total, the flight covered 10 nm, took 9 minutes, and consumed 0 lbs of fuel.
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