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Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 162 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 162 fpm next time
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 15 stages, 14 in the score
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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: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,866 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 192 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone.
The rest of the report
The Cessna CT206G taxied to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport and commenced the take-off roll, covering 337 m which represented 18 % of the available runway. Rotation was achieved at 67 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
During the left-hand pattern the aircraft entered the circuit from runway 23, flying a distance of less than 1 nm in 23 seconds. The subsequent left-hand crosswind leg covered less than 1 nm in 16 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with a 45° angle to the runway measured at 67.3°, followed by a downwind leg of 2 nm completed in 64 seconds. The base-leg turn also covered 1 nm at a 45° angle of 53.7°, after which the base leg was less than 1 nm in 37 seconds. The final turn was less than 1 nm in 26 seconds, after which the aircraft commenced the final approach.
On final approach to runway 23 the aircraft descended from 466 ft AGL to 22 ft AGL in 48 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gates. The landing was executed on a runway 1,866 m long; the threshold speed was 67 kt. Touchdown occurred 192 m from the threshold at 56 kt with a vertical speed of minus 163 fpm and perfect runway alignment. Weather at the time was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
The rollout distance measured 366 m, representing 20 % of the runway, and the aircraft maintained very good alignment throughout the rollout.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, required approximately 5 minutes, and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
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