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The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
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 309 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TL3000 Sirius taxied to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport and commenced the departure roll. The take-off run consumed 225 m, representing 12 % of the available runway, and the aircraft lifted off at 55 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
The aircraft entered the left-hand pattern from runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 25 seconds.
Continuing the left-hand pattern, the crosswind leg spanned less than 1 nm and was completed in 24 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft turned to a 68.4° angle to the runway, traversing a distance of 1 nm.
The downwind leg extended 2 nm and was flown in 78 seconds.
The base turn was executed to a 56.0° angle to the runway, covering 1 nm.
The base leg was less than 1 nm in length and was completed in 58 seconds.
The final turn to the runway approach was less than 1 nm and required 30 seconds.
Landing was made on runway 23, whose length is 1,866 m. The threshold speed was slightly below the target at 46 kt. Touchdown occurred 308 m down the runway at 35 kt with a descent rate of minus 82 fpm, and runway alignment was perfect. Weather at the time remained 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 269°, cross-wind 1 kt and head-wind 2 kt.
The rollout distance measured 395 m, equivalent to 21 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was perfect.
In total the flight covered 6 nm, taking 6 and used 0 kg of fuel.
The threshold and flare were executed with a good threshold height and a threshold speed a little below target at 46 kt.
Touchdown occurred 308 m down the runway at a speed of 35 kt, with an excellent vertical rate of minus 82 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment; the total landing distance measured 395 m, representing 21 % of the 1,866 m runway.
Rollout alignment remained perfect throughout the remaining distance.
With a score of 97.2 % the landing was strong overall; fine-tuning the approach to achieve the exact target threshold speed will eliminate the slight underspeed and further optimise the profile.
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