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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 107 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 72 kt against a target of 107 kt, running 35 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 107 kt.
Arrival
Add power on final to hold 70 kt across the threshold.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 57 kt, 13 kt below VREF, and low energy like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown at 273 fpm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 70 kt at the threshold
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 520 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 520 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 47 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 taxied from its parking position to runway 06 at AYDM Duranmin Airstrip, a movement that lasted 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 06 the aircraft used 287 m of the 520 m runway (55 % of runway length) and became airborne at a liftoff speed of 67 kt. Local conditions were temperature 16 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead AYDM Duranmin Airstrip, with the aircraft ascending from 3 476 ft asl to 8 827 ft asl, a gain of 5 351 ft achieved in 5 minutes while covering 12 nm.
Descent began 4 miles south of AYDM Duranmin Airstrip, descending from 8 832 ft asl to 2 960 ft asl, a loss of 5 872 ft in 3 minutes over a distance of 8 nm.
The aircraft landed on runway 06, whose length is 520 m. Threshold speed was slightly below target at 57 kt. Touchdown occurred 47 m down the runway at 54 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 273 fpm, and the touchdown point was offset 6.7 m from the centreline. Weather at the time of landing was temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt tail-wind.
Landing distance was recorded as 266 m, representing 51 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was very good.
In total the flight covered 21 nm, required 12 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 29 kg of fuel.
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