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Hold the approach speed
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.
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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,256 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 333 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Beechcraft Baron G58 began with a taxi from the parking area to the runway at KSMX Santa Maria Public Airport Captain G Allan Hancock Field, which took 11 minutes and covered 2 nm. The departure roll from runway 30 involved a takeoff distance of 1,208 ft, which was 15% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was 102 knots. The local weather at the time of departure was 59 °F with a wind speed of 14 knots at 340°, resulting in a crosswind of 6 knots and a headwind of 13 knots.
The enroute climb began 1 mile northwest of KSMX and ascended from 1,238 ft asl to 6,637 ft asl, covering a total distance of 9 nm in 3 minutes. The level cruise portion of the flight started 6 miles east of Santa Maria and lasted for 9 minutes, covering 27 nm. The descent began 10 miles northwest of New Cuyama and descended from 8,097 ft asl to 4,983 ft asl, covering 8 nm in 3 minutes.
The landing took place on runway 30R at KBFL Meadows Field, which has a runway length of 7,402 ft. The height at the threshold was 39 ft agl with a speed of 68 knots. The touchdown occurred 1,083 ft from the threshold with a speed of 61 knots and a VSI of -73 ft/min. The local weather at the time of landing was 52 °F with a wind speed of 7 knots at 60°, resulting in a crosswind of 6 knots and a tailwind of 2 knots. The total landing distance was 1,698 ft, which was 23% of the runway length.
Finally, after landing, taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 84 nm and the flight took 329 minutes, consuming 60 lbs of fuel.
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