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Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: You drifted off the centreline on the approach.
Watch for: Runway centreline: tracked all the way to the threshold.
See Arrival Approach
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 15 stages, 14 in the score
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Events
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: centreline 1.5° off, against a 1° 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 235 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 departed from runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde, employing a take-off roll of 528 m which represented 21 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 72 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
During the left-hand pattern the aircraft entered the circuit from runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 20 seconds. The subsequent left-hand crosswind leg also spanned less than 1 nm, taking 21 seconds. The downwind turn was 1 nm with a 93.7° angle to the runway, followed by a downwind leg of 2 nm completed in 63 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 1 nm with an 18.9° angle to the runway. On final approach the aircraft descended from 339 ft AGL to 37 ft AGL in 48 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gates. Weather at this stage was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, a cross-wind of 1 kt and a head-wind of 2 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 23, whose length is 2 490 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 71 kt. Touchdown occurred 233 m from the threshold at a speed of 56 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 288 fpm. Alignment on touchdown and on the subsequent rollout was perfect. The total landing distance measured 425 m, representing 17 % of the runway.
The rollout continued with perfect alignment along the runway centreline.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, required approximately 5 minutes of flight time and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
The Diamond DA40 flew the final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde, descending from 339 ft AGL to 37 ft AGL in 48 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 71 kt.
Touchdown occurred 233 m down the runway at a good speed of 56 kt; the touchdown rate was fair at minus 288 fpm and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 425 m, representing 17 % of the 2 490 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
To improve the already strong 90.7 % score, focus on moderating the flare to achieve a lower touchdown rate while preserving the excellent alignment already demonstrated.
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