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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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 10,305 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2,151 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Vision Jet began with a taxi from the parking area to the runway, which took 8 minutes to cover a distance of 2 nm. The departure roll was from runway 01 at KMKC Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, with a takeoff distance of 2,256 ft (36% of the runway). The liftoff speed was 112 kn. The local weather at the time of departure was 55 °F, with a wind of 6 kn at 39 °, resulting in a crosswind of 3 kn and a headwind of 5 kn.
The enroute climb started over KMKC Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, ascending from 1,165 ft to 28,325 ft, covering a distance of 35 nm in 17 minutes. The level cruise portion of the flight began 2 miles west of KPAQ Paola Airport in Paola, Kansas, lasting 16 minutes and covering 53 nm.
The enroute descent commenced 3 miles southwest of Hartford, Kansas, descending from 28,638 ft to 3,306 ft over a period of 16 minutes and covering 62 nm. The landing took place on runway 01L at KICT Wichita Eisenhower National Airport, which has a runway length of 10,305 ft. The aircraft reached a height of 140 ft agl at the threshold, with a speed of 88 kn. The touchdown occurred 1,997 ft from the threshold at a speed of 64 kn, with a VSI of -236 ft/min. The local weather at the time of landing was 54 °F, with a wind of 13 kn at 59 °, resulting in a crosswind of 8 kn and a headwind of 10 kn. The total landing distance was 2,262 ft, which equates to 22% of the runway.
Following the landing, taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 181 nm, with a duration of 88 minutes. The flight consumed 523 lbs of fuel.
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