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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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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: six checks at the point nearest 500 ft above the runway after the base turn. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 636 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 636 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 217 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 departed runway 10 at TFFJ Saint Barthélemy - Rémy de Haenen Airport, accelerating over a take-off run of 212 m (33 % of the runway) and lifting off at 74 kt. Ambient conditions were 28 °C with a wind from 110° at 15 kt, providing a 14 kt head-wind component and a 5 kt cross-wind component.
During the approach the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern to runway 10, covering less than 1 nm in 20 seconds for the entry and another sub-1 nm segment in 14 seconds on the crosswind leg. The downwind turn spanned 3 nm with an angle to the runway of 103.9°, followed by a 2-nm downwind leg completed in 40 seconds. The base-leg turn extended 6 nm at an angle of 48.9°, after which a 3-nm base leg was flown in 74 seconds. The final turn covered 2 nm in 65 seconds, and the aircraft established the final approach from the west on a heading of 85.0° at 2 nm and 338 ft AGL.
Landing was executed on runway 10, whose length is 636 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 69 kt, and touchdown occurred 216 m down the runway at 59 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 239 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was very good, and the total landing distance measured 346 m (54 % of the runway).
Runway rollout alignment was perfect as the aircraft decelerated and exited the runway.
In total the flight covered 16 nm and consumed 24 kg of fuel.
The Kodiak 100 approached runway 10 at TFFJ Saint Barthélemy from the west on a heading of 85.0° at 2 NM and 338 ft agl, with temperature 28 °C, wind 15 kt from 110°, a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 14 kt head-wind; the final approach was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate because the aircraft was off the glideslope.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and a threshold speed that was good at 69 kt.
Touchdown occurred 216 m down the runway, a distance judged good, with a touchdown speed of 59 kt that was a little fast, a touchdown rate rated fair at -239 fpm, and runway-touchdown alignment described as very good; the total landing distance was 346 m, representing 54 % of the 636 m runway.
Rollout alignment was perfect, keeping the aircraft centered on the runway centreline to the stop.
To improve the score, focus on achieving a stabilized approach by the 1,000 ft gate to remain on the glideslope, and reduce touchdown speed to better match the target VREF, which will also help moderate the descent rate.
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