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Adjust power to bring the approach speed onto 106 kt and hold it through the gates.
What happened: The approach speed deviated from the target through the stabilisation gates. This kind of deviation usually carries through to an unstable threshold crossing.
Watch for: Watch the airspeed indicator against 106 kt.
Departure
Hold the nose until reaching 135 kt before rotating.
What happened: Rotation began at 118 kt, 17 kt before the 135 kt target.
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: sink rate 1,664 fpm, more than the glideslope needed, glideslope 4.2° against the runway's 3° and speed 32 kt FAST on the reference speed of 106 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,255 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,255 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 162 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The FSReborn Phenom 300E Oberon taxied from the parking area to the departure runway, covering approximately 1 nm in 7 minutes.
Takeoff was executed from runway 17 at LFMD Cannes-Mandelieu Airport. The aircraft used 489 m of runway, representing 34 % of the available length, and lifted off at 118 kt. Ambient conditions were 32 °C with a wind of 11 kt from 099°, providing a 3 kt headwind component and an 11 kt cross-wind.
Climb commenced overhead Mandelieu-la-Napoule, ascending from 1,078 ft asl to 5,300 ft asl - a gain of 4,222 ft - over 3 minutes while covering 8 nm.
A level cruise segment began 9 nm south-east of Saint-Raphael and lasted 2 minutes, during which the aircraft traveled 5 nm.
The first en-route descent started 5 nm south of Theoule-sur-Mer, descending from 5,296 ft asl to 2,551 ft asl - a loss of 2,745 ft - in 3 minutes and covering 10 nm.
A second descent phase began 6 nm south of Theoule-sur-Mer, dropping from 2,292 ft asl to 1,802 ft asl, a decrease of 490 ft, over 2 minutes and 5 nm.
Final approach to runway 35 at LFMD Cannes-Mandelieu was made from the south, on a heading of 349.0° at 4 nm and 1,783 ft agl.
Landing on runway 35, which is 1,255 m long, was achieved with a threshold speed of 105 kt. Touchdown occurred 162 m down the runway at 101 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 213 fpm and very good alignment. Local weather at the time was 30 °C with a wind of 9 kt from 120°, a 7 kt cross-wind and a 5 kt tail-wind component. The total landing roll measured 870 m, equivalent to 69 % of the runway, and rollout alignment remained very good.
The aircraft rolled out cleanly and taxied back to the parking area, a movement that took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 34 nm, required 15 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 79 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 35 at LFMD Cannes-Mandelieu Airport was conducted from the south on a heading of 349.0° at 4 nm and 1,783 ft agl, with a temperature of 30 °C, wind 9 kt from 120°, a 7 kt crosswind component and a 5 kt tailwind component. The aircraft maintained the published threshold speed of 105 kt and the report notes a good threshold height.
During the threshold and flare segment the aircraft held the required 105 kt threshold speed and the flare was executed with the indicated good threshold height, indicating a stable transition from approach to touchdown.
Touchdown occurred 162 m down the runway at a speed of 101 kt. The vertical speed at touchdown was recorded as minus 213 fpm, rated as fair, and the runway touchdown alignment was described as very good.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 870 m, representing 69 % of the 1,255 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
With a final score of 98.7 % the landing was strong; refining the flare to achieve a slightly lower descent rate will further smooth the touchdown, and continued attention to maintaining the aim point will preserve the excellent alignment already demonstrated.
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