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Add power on short final to hold 65 kt at the threshold rather than letting speed decay.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 49 kt against a target of 65 kt, below reference speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, hold 65 kt down to the threshold.
Departure
Hold the nose until reaching 65 kt before rotating.
What happened: Rotation began at 51 kt, 14 kt before the 65 kt target.
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 · 13 stages, 11 scored
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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: sink rate 1,202 fpm, more than the glideslope needed, glideslope 5.3° against the runway's 3° and centreline 6.1° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 499 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 499 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 61 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 172 departed EDSH Backnang-Heiningen Airfield from runway 28. The aircraft used 314 m of runway, representing 63 % of the available length, and became airborne at a liftoff speed of 56 kt. Ambient conditions were 20 °C with a wind of 17 kt from 326°, giving a crosswind component of 11 kt and a headwind component of 12 kt.
During the approach the pilot entered a left-hand pattern from runway 28, covering less than 1 nm in 39 seconds for the entry and less than 1 nm in 18 seconds on the crosswind leg. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with an angle to the runway of 71.6°, followed by a downwind leg of 2 nm completed in 52 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 1 nm with a 3.3° angle to the runway. The final approach was established from the east on a heading of 267.0°, at 1 nm and 581 ft AGL, maintaining the same wind conditions as reported for departure.
Landing was executed on runway 28, whose total length is 499 m. The threshold speed was slightly below the target at 49 kt. Touchdown occurred 59 m down the runway at 44 kt with a vertical speed of minus 234 fpm, and the aircraft aligned perfectly with the runway centreline. The total landing distance measured 171 m, equivalent to 34 % of the runway length.
Rollout was completed with very good alignment, and the aircraft remained on the centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
In total the flight covered 4 nm, required 5 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
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