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Improve the pattern downwind leg
The one change that would have gained the most on this flight, and the guide passage for it.
The 45-degrees-behind-the-wing cue assumes you can turn your head and use peripheral vision. Downwind spacing cues like "put the wingtip halfway up the strut" assume a fixed, known eyepoint. Neither survives a monitor unmodified. If you fly on a fixed monitor, stop pretending and fly a numbers-based circuit.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,490 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 264 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 0.19 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the departure roll. The take-off run consumed 406 m, representing 16 % of the available runway, and the aircraft lifted off at 78 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 273°, resulting in zero cross-wind and zero head-wind components.
During the approach the flight entered a left-hand pattern for runway 23. The initial pattern entry covered less than 1 nm in 24 seconds, followed by a left-hand crosswind segment of less than 1 nm in 19 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm at an angle of 81.8°, after which the downwind leg extended 2 nm in 65 seconds. The base turn covered 1 nm with a 45.9° angle to the runway, and the base leg was less than 1 nm in 22 seconds. The final turn was less than 1 nm in 20 seconds, and the final approach was established from the north-east on a heading of 231.0° at 1 nm and 134 ft AGL.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose total length is 2 493 m. The threshold speed was 69 kt; touchdown occurred 266 m down the runway at 53 kt with a descent rate of minus 77 fpm. Alignment at touchdown was very good, and the runway touchdown alignment remained excellent throughout. The total landing distance measured 553 m, equivalent to 22 % of the runway length.
The aircraft rolled out along the runway maintaining perfect alignment and decelerated to a stop after covering the remaining distance of the landing roll.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, took 5 (units as recorded), and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde was flown from the north-east on a heading of 231.0° at 1 nm and 134 ft agl.
The threshold height was described as good and the aircraft crossed the threshold at the prescribed speed of 69 kt.
Touchdown occurred 266 m down the runway at a speed of 53 kt with an excellent rate of -77 fpm and runway-touchdown alignment was very good.
The total landing distance was 553 m, representing 22 % of the 2 493 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Maintain the current high standard while fine-tuning the touchdown point to sit nearer the 300 m aim point and continue to verify speed control for consistent performance.
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