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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: glideslope 5.4° against the runway's 3° and centreline 14.5° off, against a 1° limit.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline 5.7° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,827 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 417 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 172 departed from runway 25R at KDAB Daytona Beach International Airport, using a takeoff roll of 443 m which represented 14 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 75 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind from 270° at 8 kt, including a 3 kt cross-component and a 7 kt headwind component.
During the first climb segment the aircraft climbed overhead KDAB from 486 ft asl to 1,053 ft asl, gaining 567 ft in 1 minute while covering 2 nm.
The initial cruise phase began over KDAB and persisted for 3 minutes, during which the airplane travelled 5 nm at level altitude.
A second climb followed, again commencing over KDAB, with altitude increasing from 1,003 ft asl to 2,005 ft asl. The climb added 1,002 ft in 2 minutes and spanned 2 nm.
The subsequent cruise segment started 2 mi southwest of KDAB, lasted 7 minutes and covered 11 nm before the descent began.
For the final approach to runway 30 at KDED Deland Municipal Sidney H Taylor Field, the aircraft descended from 1,939 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 181 seconds and was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 30 at KDED was completed with a runway length of 1,827 m. The threshold speed was 61 kt, touchdown occurred 411 m down the runway at 46 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 232 fpm. The touchdown point was 11.7 m off the centreline. Local weather was 15 °C with a wind from 269° at 8 kt, including a 3 kt crosswind and a 7 kt headwind. Total landing distance was 667 m, representing 36 % of the runway.
Runway rollout was noted as slightly misaligned, with the aircraft ending 11.2 m from the centreline.
In total the flight covered 24 nm, required 16 minutes of flight time, and consumed 9 kg of fuel.
The Cessna 172 made its final approach to runway 30 at KDED Deland Municipal Sidney H Taylor Field, descending from 1,939 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 181 seconds while the local temperature was 15 °C, wind 8 kt from 269°, with a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 7 kt head-wind. At the 1,000 ft gate the approach was assessed as unstable, being off the glideslope and off the centreline, and the aircraft was scored on the stabilisation gates.
Threshold height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 61 kt, indicating the aircraft met the required parameters for the flare segment of the landing.
Touchdown occurred 411 m down the runway, with a touchdown speed of 46 kt that was good, a touchdown rate of minus 232 fpm that was fair, and a runway touchdown position misaligned by 11.7 m from the centreline. The total landing distance was 667 m, representing 36 % of the 1,827 m runway length.
During rollout the aircraft remained slightly misaligned, deviating 11.2 m from the centreline, before exiting the runway.
The score of 85.1 % reflects a solid performance; focus on achieving a stabilised approach that captures both glideslope and centreline to eliminate the early instability, and refine directional control to reduce the touchdown and rollout alignment offsets.
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