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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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.
Side view — the last 2,501 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 2,501 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,806 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with taxiing from the parking area to the runway, which took 6 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cessna C172, then departed from runway 19 at LEGE Girona-Costa Brava Airport in Girona, Spain. The takeoff distance was 1,140 feet, which is 15% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 58 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of Girona, it encountered local weather conditions of 49°F temperature and a wind speed of 1 knot at 255 degrees. The crosswind and headwind components were both 1 knot. The enroute climb started overhead Girona, where the aircraft climbed from 1,332 feet above sea level to 5,444 feet, an increase of 4,112 feet in 4 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started overhead Bescano, a town in the Catalunya region of Spain, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 19 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, this time from 5,968 feet to 9,395 feet, an increase of 3,427 feet in 6 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles. The climb started 1 mile west of Sant Joan les Fonts, another town in the Catalunya region.
The enroute level cruise started 1 mile south of Mollo, a town in the Occitanie region of France, and lasted for 7 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles. The aircraft then began a descent from 9,082 feet to 8,432 feet, a decrease of 650 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The descent started 5 miles south of Sahorre, a town in the Occitanie region.
The enroute level cruise started 3 miles south west of Sahorre and lasted for 11 minutes, covering a distance of 12 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another descent, this time from 9,081 feet to 7,090 feet, a decrease of 1,991 feet in 4 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles. The descent started 1 mile south west of LFRA Aérodrome d'Angers Avrillé Angers, a small airport in the Occitanie region.
The enroute level cruise started 5 miles south west of Axat, a town in the Occitanie region, and lasted for 9 minutes, covering a distance of 60 nautical miles. The aircraft then began a descent from 6,721 feet to 4,684 feet, a decrease of 2,037 feet in 4 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles. The descent started overhead Saint-Genies-Bellevue, a town in the Occitanie region.
The enroute level cruise started 1 mile south west of Bouloc, a town in the Occitanie region, and lasted for 9 minutes, covering a distance of 37 nautical miles. The aircraft then began a descent from 4,436 feet to 2,487 feet, a decrease of 1,948 feet in 4 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. The descent started 1 mile north west of Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac, a town in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France.
The enroute level cruise started overhead Foulayronnes, a town in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then began a descent from 2,415 feet to 1,367 feet, a decrease of 1,048 feet in
The Cessna C172 aircraft successfully landed at Castelmoron-sur-Lot Airport, but the landing was not without its issues. The pilot achieved a final approach to runway 33R from the south east, heading 331.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,222 feet above ground level.
The landing itself was executed on a runway with a length of 2,501 feet, which is a relatively short runway for a Cessna C172. The threshold height was good, indicating that the pilot maintained a safe altitude before touching down. However, the threshold speed was excessively high at 91 knots, which may have been due to the pilot's decision to flare late or not aggressively enough.
The touchdown point was also excessively long, using more than 75% of the available runway. This suggests that the pilot may have been unable to stop the aircraft within the remaining runway length, which could have been a concern if the landing had been on a longer runway. On the other hand, the touchdown speed of 53 knots was good, indicating that the pilot was able to control the aircraft's descent and speed effectively.
The touchdown rate of -260 feet per minute was fair, suggesting that the pilot was able to slow the aircraft down relatively quickly after touchdown. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 15 feet from the centreline, which may have been due to a slight drift or a miscalculation of the wind direction.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were relatively calm, with a temperature of 54°F and a wind speed of 25 knots from 289°. The crosswind component was 16 knots, while the headwind component was 19 knots. These conditions may have affected the pilot's ability to control the aircraft during the landing, but they do not appear to have been a major factor in the issues encountered during the landing.
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