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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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Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 10,986 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,308 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.91 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to the runway, a movement that required 8 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Departure roll was conducted on runway 28R at KBOI Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field; the takeoff run measured 4,450 ft, representing 45 % of the available runway, and liftoff was achieved at 100 kt. Ambient conditions were 69 °F with a wind of 18 kt from 310°, including a 5 kt crosswind component and a 17 kt headwind.
Climb commenced overhead KBOI, ascending from 3,234 ft asl to 29,894 ft asl, an altitude gain of 26,661 ft achieved in 20 minutes while covering 59 nm.
Level cruise began 1 mile northeast of OG50 Cottonwood Creek Ranch Airport, Harper, and persisted for 33 minutes, during which the aircraft traveled 144 nm.
Descent started 8 miles east of OR87 Blue Skies Farm Airport, Salem, with the aircraft descending from 29,994 ft asl to 1,331 ft asl, a loss of 28,663 ft over 25 minutes and a distance of 96 nm.
Final approach to runway 28L at KPDX Portland International Airport was executed from the southeast on a heading of 299.0° at 4 nm and 1,295 ft agl; the approach continued with a descent from 1,345 ft agl to 67 ft agl in 128 seconds, meeting the stabilization gates criteria.
Landing on runway 28L, which is 10,986 ft long, was performed with a threshold speed of 86 kt. Touchdown occurred 1,307 ft down the runway at 68 kt, with a heavy touchdown rate of minus 601 fpm and a lateral deviation of 11 ft from the centreline. Local weather at the time was 63 °F with a wind of 7 kt from 200°, including a 7 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind. The total landing distance recorded was 2,363 ft, representing 22 % of the runway length.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect, and the aircraft came to a stop within the expected distance parameters.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area, a maneuver that took 6 minutes and covered 2 nm. Overall, the flight covered 311 nm, lasted 91 minutes, and consumed 616 lb of fuel.
GroundStopFS approached runway 28L at KPDX Portland International Airport from the southeast on a heading of 299.0° at 4 nm and 1,295 ft agl. The final approach was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate, being more than 20 kt above VREF, and the aircraft descended from 1,345 ft agl to 67 ft agl in 128 seconds. Local weather was 63 °F with wind 7 kt from 200°, a 7 kt crosswind component and a 1 kt tailwind component.
At threshold the height was good and the threshold speed was good at 86 kt.
Touchdown occurred 1,307 ft down the runway at a speed of 68 kt, which was rated good, but the touchdown rate was heavy at minus 601 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 11 ft from the centreline, and the total landing distance was 2,363 ft, representing 22 % of the 10,986 ft runway.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect.
Future flights should focus on achieving a stabilised approach within VREF to avoid the more than 20 kt excess speed and to reduce the heavy touchdown rate. Maintaining precise lateral alignment during flare will also help keep the touchdown point closer to the centreline.
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