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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to stay on the centreline during the ground roll.
What happened: You tracked 4.5 m right of the runway centreline during the ground roll, and this pattern of drift usually carries forward into a rightward heading deviation during the initial climb, as seen in the 1.9° variation through Climb 1.
Watch for: Heading indicator: hold runway heading through the climb.
Arrival
On crosswind, correct back onto the runway heading at once with a level turn, before it has a chance to widen the downwind turn.
What happened: You drifted -8.1° off the runway heading on the crosswind leg, and the downwind turn then opened out to 104° against the runway; a heading slip like that on crosswind usually carries into an oversized turn-out angle on the downwind leg.
Watch for: Heading indicator against the runway heading on crosswind, then the angle-to-runway reading on the downwind turn.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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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: seven 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. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline 2.1° off, against a 1° limit.
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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