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As soon as you notice drift, correct it with small rudder corrections aimed at a fixed point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: You let the aircraft drift off the centreline on approach by 7.6 m, and drifting off centreline like that usually carries through to the touchdown point, which landed 7.6 m off this time.
Watch for: Watch your position against the extended runway centreline, working to hold it within 7.6 m.
A tailwind component on base sweeps you through the extended centreline, the instinctive correction is to steepen the bank and, when that's not enough, to skid the turn with rudder. In a real aircraft this is the base-to-final stall-spin scenario that kills people. Don't steepen past 30 degrees, and if you've blown through the centreline, go around and reset.
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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: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. 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 1,544 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 97 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Black Square Commander 114TC N177AQ taxied from its parking position to runway 23 at GE99 Heaven's Landing Airport in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm on the taxiway.
During the departure roll on runway 23, the aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 433 m, representing 27 % of the runway length, and achieved a liftoff speed of 74 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 16 °C with a wind from 270° at 2 kt, providing a 2 kt crosswind component and a 1 kt headwind component.
The en-route climb began overhead the airport, with the aircraft climbing from 3,337 ft asl to 4,020 ft asl, an increase of 683 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 2 nm. A subsequent climb segment started 1 mile east of the field, with the aircraft climbing from 4,008 ft asl to 3,103 ft asl, an increase of 905 ft in 1 minute and also covering 2 nm.
On final approach to runway 23, the aircraft approached from the north-east on a heading of 221.0° at 1 nm distance and 384 ft above ground level.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose length is 1,580 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 65 kt, touchdown occurred 144 m down the runway at a speed of 59 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 64 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was within acceptable limits. Weather at the time was a temperature of 15 °C with a wind from 269° at 2 kt, yielding a 2 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 6 nm, took 4 (units as provided), and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
Black Square Commander 114TC N177AQ completed a final approach to runway 23 at GE99 Heaven's Landing Airport from the north-east, tracking a heading of 221.0° at 1 nm and 384 ft AGL. The aircraft maintained the prescribed flight path into the approach corridor and entered the final segment with the indicated parameters.
At threshold the aircraft achieved a good threshold height and established the required threshold speed of 65 kt, setting up a stable flare for touchdown.
Touchdown occurred 144 m down the runway at a speed of 59 kt. The vertical speed at touchdown was minus 64 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
With a final score of 99.9 % the landing was essentially flawless; focus on preserving the consistency of these parameters will sustain the high performance.
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