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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 3,604 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 3,604 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 38 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Cessna Longitude began with a 4-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at KBLI Bellingham Intl, covering 1 nm. The departure roll from runway 34 involved a takeoff distance of 4,232 ft, using 63% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 165 kn. Local weather conditions at the time were a temperature of 60°F with a 1 kn wind coming from 270°, resulting in a 1 kn crosswind and 0 kn headwind.
The enroute climb commenced 1 mile north of Marietta-Alderwood in Washington, climbing from 920 ft above sea level to 8,010 ft, an increase of 7,089 ft in 4 minutes and covering 15 nm. The subsequent level cruise phase started 4 miles southwest of White Rock in British Columbia and lasted 13 minutes, covering 61 nm.
The descent phase began 6 miles east of CAT7 Lasqueti Island/False Bay Seaplane Base Parksville in British Columbia, descending from 7,992 ft above sea level to 2,014 ft, a decrease of 5,978 ft in 5 minutes and covering 19 nm. The landing took place on runway 27 at CYPW Powell River, which has a runway length of 3,604 ft. The aircraft was 6 ft above ground level at the threshold, touching down 37 ft from the threshold at a speed of 120 kn with a vertical speed indicator reading of -916 ft/min.
The local weather at the time of landing was a temperature of 62°F with a 1 kn wind coming from 269°, resulting in a 0 kn crosswind and 1 kn headwind. The total landing distance was 1,163 ft, which equated to 32% of the runway length. Taxiing back to the parking area from the runway took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 102 nm and lasted 27 minutes, consuming -1,079 lbs of fuel.
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