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Speed on the slow side
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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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 513 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 513 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 31 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 taxied to runway 19 at AYPB Paiela Airport and commenced the take-off roll. The aircraft used 355 m of runway, representing 69 % of the available length, and lifted off at 64 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 287°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and no head-wind.
Climb began directly overhead AYPB Paiela Airport in Porgera, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The airplane ascended from 6,569 ft asl to 8,693 ft asl, gaining 2,124 ft in three minutes while covering six nautical miles.
Descent was initiated two miles south-east of AYPB Paiela Airport, Porgera, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The flight descended from 8,646 ft asl to 6,584 ft asl, a loss of 2,062 ft in three minutes over a distance of five nautical miles.
During the final approach to runway 01 at AYPB Paiela Airport the aircraft reduced altitude from 492 ft agl to -9 ft agl in 33 seconds and achieved a score on the stabilisation gates. Weather remained 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 287°, a cross-wind of 1 kt and zero head-wind.
Landing on runway 01, which is 513 m long, was performed with a threshold speed of 54 kt, well below the target. Touchdown occurred 23 m down the runway at 52 kt with a vertical speed of minus 152 fpm. The touchdown point was 15.6 m off the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 244 m, equivalent to 47 % of the runway.
Rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 12.5 m as the aircraft decelerated and exited the runway.
In total the flight covered 13 nm, required seven minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 22 kg of fuel.
The Kodiak 100 began its final approach to runway 01 at AYPB Paiela Airport with a score of 85.0 %. The aircraft descended from 492 ft agl to -9 ft agl in 33 seconds, meeting the stabilisation-gate criteria. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 287°, a crosswind component of 1 kt and no headwind.
At threshold the aircraft achieved a good height and the threshold speed was recorded at 54 kt, which was well below the target and required attention to avoid a stall.
Touchdown occurred 23 m down the runway at a speed of 52 kt and a vertical rate of -152 fpm, both judged good. The touchdown point was significantly misaligned, being 15.6 m off the centreline.
The total landing distance was 244 m, representing 47 % of the 513 m runway, and the rollout remained slightly misaligned, deviating 12.5 m from the centreline.
Maintain the target threshold speed to preserve a safety margin above stall while refining centreline tracking during flare and rollout to reduce the observed misalignment.
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