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Departure
Rotate sooner, bringing the nose up at 49 kt rather than letting speed build further.
What happened: You lifted off at 64 kt against a rotation target of 49 kt, rotating late in the ground roll.
Watch for: Watch airspeed and rotate at the target of 49 kt.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 24 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 24 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 24 ft to touchdown.
See Arrival Landing
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.
At the 300 ft gate: off the runway's 3.5° glideslope and off the centreline.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,737 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 526 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight was conducted in an American Champion Scout, a single-engine aircraft. The pre-flight preparations were swift, with taxiing from the parking area to the runway taking less than a minute and covering a distance of less than one nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 30 at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, with a takeoff distance of 124 meters, which accounted for only 5% of the runway's length. The liftoff speed was 64 knots, and the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind of 1 knot from a direction of 270 degrees.
The pilot then entered a right-hand pattern from runway 30, navigating the aircraft through a series of turns and legs. The pattern entry was completed in less than 1 nautical mile in 14 seconds, and the crosswind leg was covered in 16 seconds. The downwind turn was executed at an angle of 45 degrees to the runway, with a distance of 1 nautical mile. The downwind leg itself took 63 seconds to complete, and the base leg turn was made at an angle of 52.3 degrees to the runway. The base leg was covered in less than 1 nautical mile in 13 seconds, and the final turn was completed in 41 seconds.
The final approach to runway 30 was made from the south-east, with a heading of 300 degrees and an altitude of 97 feet above ground level. The landing was executed on the runway, with a touchdown point located 86 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The threshold speed was slightly too high at 58 knots, and the touchdown speed of 50 knots was a little fast. However, the touchdown rate was excellent at -57 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The local weather conditions remained the same throughout the flight, with a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind of 1 knot from a direction of 270 degrees. The total flight distance was 5 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 4 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 1 kilogram of fuel during the flight.
The American Champion Scout, registration LIONS 26 ANALOG, successfully landed at Glasgow Prestwick Airport (EGPK) on runway 30. The aircraft approached the runway from the south east, aligning itself with the runway heading of 300.0°. At the point of landing, the aircraft was at an altitude of 97 feet above ground level (agl) and 0 nautical miles from the runway threshold.
The landing was executed with a good threshold height, indicating that the pilot maintained a safe distance from the ground during the final approach. However, the threshold speed was slightly higher than ideal, reaching 58 knots. This may have been due to the pilot's decision to maintain a higher speed to ensure a stable approach.
The touchdown point was located 86 meters beyond the designated touchdown zone, which is a relatively safe distance. The touchdown speed of 50 knots was a little fast, but the aircraft's rate of descent was excellent, at -57 feet per minute (fpm). This suggests that the pilot maintained a good control over the aircraft's descent and was able to touch down smoothly.
The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, indicating that the pilot maintained a straight and level approach to the runway. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were favorable, with a temperature of 15°C and a light wind of 1 knot from 270°. The crosswind and headwind components were negligible, at 1 knot each.
Overall, the landing was executed with a high degree of precision and control, resulting in a score of 98.8%. The pilot's ability to maintain a good threshold height, control the descent rate, and align the aircraft with the runway touchdown zone were all key factors in the successful landing.
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