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Keep the approach speed on target
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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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 for a circuit: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 828 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 828 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 14 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 taxied to runway 27 at EGFE Haverfordwest Airport and commenced the departure roll, achieving a take-off distance of 379 m which represented 46 % of the available runway. Liftoff occurred at 77 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, resulting in a head-wind component of 2 kt and zero cross-wind.
During the approach the aircraft entered a right-hand pattern from runway 27, covering less than 1 nm in 23 seconds. The subsequent right-hand crosswind leg also spanned less than 1 nm and required 26 seconds. The downwind turn was 2 nm long with a 45° turn angle measured at 52.6°, followed by a downwind leg of 2 nm completed in 70 seconds. The base-leg turn again covered 2 nm with a 45° angle of 50.7°, after which the base leg was less than 1 nm and lasted 15 seconds. The final turn to the runway extended 1 nm and took 72 seconds.
Landing was executed on runway 27, whose total length is 828 m. The threshold speed was 54 kt, well below the target, and touchdown occurred 10 m beyond the threshold at a speed of 54 kt. The aircraft settled at a smooth descent rate of minus 101 fpm, with the touchdown point offset 4.0 m to the right of the centreline. Weather at the time was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, providing a head-wind component of 2 kt and no cross-wind.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 205 m, equivalent to 25 % of the runway, and alignment during the roll-out was reported as very good.
In total the flight covered 8 nm, required 5 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 12 kg of fuel.
The Kodiak 100 approached runway 27 at EGFE Haverfordwest Airport in 15 °C temperature with a 2 kt wind from 269°, giving a 2 kt headwind and no cross-wind.
Threshold height was good and the aircraft crossed the threshold at 54 kt, a speed well below the target, requiring attention to avoid a stall during the flare.
Touchdown occurred 10 m beyond the threshold at 54 kt, with a smooth vertical rate of minus 101 fpm; the touchdown point was offset 4.0 m from the centreline and the total landing roll measured 205 m, representing 25 % of the 828 m runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
Maintain threshold speed nearer to the prescribed target to reduce stall risk, and aim to keep the touchdown point within a metre of the centreline to preserve optimal alignment; these refinements will help sustain the high 95.7 % score.
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