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Improve the pattern downwind leg
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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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.
At the 300 ft gate: wings 22° of bank, against a 10° limit.
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 398 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna Skyhawk taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the departure roll. The aircraft lifted off after a take-off run of 423 m, representing 17 % of the available runway, at a liftoff speed of 62 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind from 270° at 1 kt, providing a 1 kt head-wind and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
During the approach the pilot entered a left-hand pattern on runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 16 seconds for the entry and another sub-1 nm segment in 20 seconds for the cross-wind leg. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with a 97.2° angle to the runway, followed by a 2 nm downwind leg completed in 63 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 1 nm at a 26.4° angle, after which the final approach was established from the north-east on a heading of 230.0° at 1 nm and 332 ft AGL.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose total length is 2,493 m. The threshold speed was slightly above the target at 64 kt, and touchdown occurred 401 m down the runway at 48 kt with a descent rate of minus 77 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was perfect, and the total landing distance measured 609 m, equivalent to 24 % of the runway length.
The rollout continued with perfect runway alignment, allowing the aircraft to decelerate safely to a stop. No further maneuvering was required before the conclusion of the flight.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, took 5 (units as recorded), and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde was conducted from the north-east on a heading of 230.0 ° at 1 nm and 332 ft agl, with local temperature 15 °C, wind 1 kt from 270 °, crosswind 1 kt and headwind 1 kt.
The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 64 kt.
Touchdown occurred 401 m down the runway at a speed of 48 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 77 fpm; runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The total landing distance was 609 m, representing 24 % of the 2 ,493 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
With a score of 98.8 % the landing was excellent; fine-tuning the approach speed to meet the target will further optimise the profile, while the already perfect alignment should be maintained.
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