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Settle the descent rate
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 · 14 stages, 12 scored
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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 2,823 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 2,823 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 143 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kitfox STI departed from runway 17 at CYBW Calgary / Springbank Airport, achieving a take-off roll of 897 ft which represented 18 % of the available runway. Liftoff occurred at 54 kt. Ambient conditions were 38 °F with a wind of 4 kt from 310°, a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
Climb commenced immediately after liftoff, beginning overhead CYBW and gaining altitude from 4,455 ft asl to 6,522 ft asl, an increase of 2,067 ft. The climb was completed in 3 minutes while covering 4 nm.
Cruise was established 4 miles east of CYBW and persisted for 23 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 20 nm at level flight.
Descent began 3 miles north-west of CFY4 Winters Aire Park Airport, descending from 4,949 ft asl to 3,462 ft asl, a loss of 1,487 ft. The descent lasted 3 minutes and covered 2 nm.
The final approach to runway 10 at CFY4 proceeded from 626 ft agl to 24 ft agl in 25 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 10, whose length is 2,823 ft, was executed with a threshold speed of 46 kt, slightly below target. Touchdown occurred 135 ft down the runway at 42 kt, with a firm rate of -305 fpm and a lateral deviation of 26 ft from the centreline. Local weather reported 46 °F, wind 3 kt from 150°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind. Total landing distance measured 270 ft, representing 10 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was noted to be slightly off centreline by 44 ft.
Taxi-in to the parking area required 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 28 nm, took 35 minutes, and consumed 0 lbs of fuel.
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