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Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 174 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 174 fpm next time
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
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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 300 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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,866 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 191 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna CT206G taxied to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport and commenced the departure roll. The aircraft accelerated for a takeoff distance of 335 m, representing 18 % of the runway, and rotated at 66 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
After liftoff, the pilot entered a left-hand pattern on runway 23, covering a distance of less than 1 nm in 23 seconds.
The subsequent left-hand crosswind leg also measured less than 1 nm and was completed in 16 seconds.
During the downwind turn, the aircraft described a 1 nm arc with an angle to the runway of 67.9°.
The downwind leg extended 2 nm and was flown in 63 seconds.
The base turn comprised a 1 nm arc with an angle to the runway of 54.3°.
The base leg was less than 1 nm in length and was completed in 36 seconds.
The final turn to align with the runway was less than 1 nm and took 25 seconds.
A controlled descent followed, dropping from 468 ft agl to 21 ft agl over a period of 46 seconds.
The aircraft then established the final approach to runway 23, satisfying the stabilisation gates before touchdown.
Landing was achieved on runway 23, whose length is 1,866 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 67 kt, touchdown occurred 191 m from the threshold at 56 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 174 fpm. Alignment with the runway centreline was noted as perfect, and the same weather conditions as departure applied.
Rollout continued for a total landing distance of 353 m, representing 19 % of the runway, with runway-touchdown alignment described as very good.
In total, the flight covered 7 nm, took 5 minutes, and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
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