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Add power on short final to hold 77 kt at the threshold rather than letting speed decay.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 68 kt against a target of 77 kt, below reference speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, hold 77 kt down to the threshold.
Departure
Rotate the moment the speed tape reaches 65 kt, not after it.
What happened: Rotation was held until 75 kt, 10 kt past the 65 kt rotation target. Carrying that much extra speed into rotation usually adds unwanted energy right at liftoff.
Spacing cues are relative to your eyepoint, so two simmers with different FOV settings following the same wingtip cue fly patterns half a mile different in width, and a wide FOV compresses depth so the runway on base looks further away than it is, biasing you towards a late turn. Pick a camera position and FOV, save it, and never change it, because every judgement you calibrate is calibrated to that picture.
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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: centreline 2.2° 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 2,000 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 383 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 195 departed from runway 24 at EHRD Rotterdam-The Hague Airport, achieving liftoff after a takeoff run of 258 m (13 % of the runway) and reaching a liftoff speed of 77 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, providing a 2 kt headwind and a 1 kt crosswind component.
During the approach phase the aircraft entered a right-hand pattern from runway 24, completing the entry and the subsequent crosswind leg in less than 1 nm each within 27 seconds. The downwind turn covered 2 nm at an angle of 45° and a heading of 35.3°, followed by a downwind leg of less than 1 nm completed in 15 seconds. The final approach to runway 06 was flown from the south-west on a heading of 56.0° at 1 nm and 320 ft agl.
Landing was executed on runway 06, whose length is 2 000 m, with a threshold speed of 68 kt. Touchdown occurred 380 m down the runway at 52 kt and a descent rate of minus 162 fpm, and the aircraft aligned very well with the runway centreline. Weather at the time remained 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, giving a 2 kt tailwind and a 1 kt crosswind component.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 682 m (34 % of the runway) and the alignment during rollout was very good.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, took 5 (units as given), and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The Cessna 195 received a score of 96.3 % and executed the final approach to runway 06 at EHRD Rotterdam The Hague Airport from the south-west, tracking a heading of 56.0 ° at 1 NM and 320 ft AGL. Local weather was 15 °C with wind 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt tailwind component.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 68 kt. The flare was performed with the aircraft aligned very well to the centreline.
Touchdown occurred 380 m down the runway at a good speed of 52 kt and a good vertical rate of minus 162 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The total landing distance was 682 m, representing 34 % of the 2 000 m runway, and rollout alignment remained very good.
Maintain the aim point near 300 m (1 000 ft) down the runway and continue to manage the flare to keep the touchdown rate around the observed minus 162 fpm for consistent performance.
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