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Arrival
On downwind, use small aileron and rudder corrections to hold the wings-parallel heading against the runway.
What happened: On the downwind leg the heading drifted 7.8° off the runway-parallel track.
Watch for: Heading indicator: parallel to the runway on downwind.
See Pattern Downwind
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 · 14 stages, 13 in the score
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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: wings 11° of bank, against a 10° 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 2,490 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 341 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the departure roll. The aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 435 m, representing 17 % of the runway, and lifted off at 69 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
During the descent phase the airplane reduced altitude from 381 ft agl to 47 ft agl in 41 seconds, establishing the profile required for final approach.
The approach sequence began with a left-hand pattern entry from runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 21 seconds, followed by a left-hand cross-wind leg of less than 1 nm in 23 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with a 45° angle to the runway measured at 140.6°, and the downwind leg itself was 1 nm completed in 43 seconds. The base-leg turn also covered 1 nm with a 45° angle to the runway of 16.0°. The final approach to runway 23 proceeded under the same weather as departure (15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, 1 kt cross-wind, 2 kt head-wind) and met the stabilisation gates criteria.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose length is 2 490 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 76 kt, and touchdown occurred 339 m down the runway at 56 kt with a smooth vertical rate of minus 121 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was perfect, and the total landing distance measured 507 m, equivalent to 20 % of the runway length.
Rollout continued with the aircraft maintaining perfect alignment along the runway centreline until the stop point was reached.
In total, the flight covered 4 nm, required 3 units of time, and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
The Diamond DA40 completed the final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde, descending from 381 ft agl to 47 ft agl in 41 seconds and receiving a score on the stabilisation gates.
At the threshold the aircraft maintained a good height and a threshold speed of 76 kt, indicating a proper transition into the flare.
Touchdown occurred 339 m down the runway at a speed of 56 kt, with a smooth touchdown rate of minus 121 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 507 m, representing 20 % of the 2 490 m runway, and the runway-rollout alignment was perfect.
With a score of 95.2 % the landing was strong; continue to preserve the excellent speed and alignment control while fine-tuning the touchdown point to remain consistently near the 300-m aim point.
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