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Departure
Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 0.8 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 0.8 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
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Arrival
Add power on final to hold 100 kt over the threshold.
What happened: Threshold speed was 8 kt below VREF at 92 kt, and a slow threshold crossing like this usually carries through to a hard touchdown at 0.7 g.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 100 kt at the threshold
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 19 stages, 17 scored
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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: seven 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. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate 1,282 fpm, more than the glideslope needed and centreline 2.2° 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 2,551 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 502 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 0.98 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Piper Aerostar 600 taxied from the parking area to runway 21 at KROW Roswell Air Center Airport. The taxi-out required 17 minutes and covered 4 nm.
The aircraft commenced the departure roll on runway 21 at KROW. Takeoff distance measured 963 m (24 % of runway) and liftoff speed was 99 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 25 °C.
Climb began 1 mile south-west of KROW, with altitude increasing from 4,684 ft asl to 4,928 ft asl, a gain of 245 ft in less than 1 minute while covering less than 1 nm.
Level cruise was established 2 miles south-west of KROW and persisted for 3 minutes, during which 9 nm were flown.
A second climb segment started 5 miles south-west of Roswell, raising the aircraft from 5,230 ft asl to 8,312 ft asl, an increase of 3,082 ft over 8 minutes and covering 24 nm.
Subsequent level cruise commenced 11 miles west of the 91NM El Paso Natural Gas Co near Roswell and lasted 40 minutes, encompassing 126 nm.
Descent began 9 miles west of Galisteo, descending from 9,318 ft asl to 8,820 ft asl, a
The Piper Aerostar 600, scored 96.3%, entered the final approach to runway 02 at KSAF Santa Fe Municipal Airport from the south-west on a heading of 18.0° at 2 nm and 1,029 ft agl. At the 1,000 ft gate the approach was assessed as unstable, being off the glideslope and off the centreline, with local conditions of temperature 24 °C, wind 10 kt from 10°, a 4 kt crosswind component and a 9 kt headwind.
The aircraft crossed the threshold whose height of 57 ft agl was slightly above the target, and the threshold speed was recorded as good at 92 kt.
Touchdown occurred 68 m beyond the designated touchdown zone; the touchdown speed of 77 kt was good, the vertical rate was excellent at minus 53 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The total landing distance measured 1,083 m, representing 42 % of the 2,548 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Future flights should concentrate on achieving a stabilized approach by the 1,000 ft gate, maintaining both glideslope and centreline tracking, and targeting the touchdown zone to keep the touchdown point within the prescribed limits.
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