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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 5,987 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2,316 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Sirius aircraft started at KSAF Santa Fe Muni in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Taxiing from the parking to the runway took 9 minutes and covered 2 nm. The departure roll was from runway 10, and the takeoff distance was 732 ft, which was 12% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 56 kn.
The local weather at departure showed a temperature of 72 °F and a wind speed of 16 kn coming from 89°, resulting in a crosswind of 6 kn and a headwind of 14 kn.
The enroute climb started overhead KSAF Santa Fe Muni and involved climbing from 6,538 ft asl to 6,918 ft asl, covering 1 nm in 1 minute with an increase of 380 ft in altitude.
The enroute level cruise started 1 mile northeast of KSAF Santa Fe Muni and lasted 2 minutes, covering 4 nm.
The landing took place on runway 09 at KLAM Los Alamos with a runway length of 5,987 ft. The height at threshold was 95 ft agl and the speed at threshold was 70 kn. The touchdown was 2,123 ft from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 56 kn and a vertical speed indicator reading of -192 ft/min.
The local weather at the destination showed a temperature of 64 °F and a wind speed of 11 kn coming from 19°, resulting in a crosswind of 11 kn and a headwind of 1 kn. The total landing distance was 2,933 ft, which was 49% of the runway length.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 24 nm, the flight duration was 37 minutes, and 6 lbs of fuel were used during the flight.
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