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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.
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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: six checks at the point nearest 500 ft above the runway after the base turn. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 3,310 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 3,310 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 34 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Savage Cub taxied to runway 35 at CYBW Calgary / Springbank Airport and commenced the departure roll. The takeoff run measured 948 ft, representing 19 % of the available runway, and the aircraft lifted off at 46 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 52 °F with wind from 110° at 7 kt, including a 7 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
During the final approach the aircraft descended from 569 ft AGL to 16 ft AGL in 21 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate requirements. This controlled descent preceded the final alignment for landing.
The final approach to runway 08 was executed from the west on a heading of 87.0° at 0 nm and 101 ft AGL. Local weather at the time was a temperature of 53 °F, wind from 110° at 8 kt, with a 3 kt cross-wind and a 7 kt head-wind component.
Touchdown occurred on runway 08, whose length is 3,317 ft. The threshold speed was recorded at 54 kt, above the target, and the aircraft contacted the surface 10 ft beyond the threshold at the same speed. The touchdown rate was hard at minus 450 fpm and the touchdown point was offset 25 ft from the centreline. The total landing distance was 663 ft, equivalent to 20 % of the runway, and the subsequent rollout maintained very good alignment.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 2nm taking 2 and used 0 lbs of fuel.
The Cessna 172 approached runway 22 at KLGA from the north-east on a heading of 234.0° at 0 nm and 541 ft AGL in 25 °C temperature with a 13 kt wind from 222° and a 2 kt crosswind component; the final approach was not described as stabilised.
At the threshold the aircraft was at 185 ft AGL, which was excessively over target, and the threshold speed was excessively high at 126 kt.
Touchdown occurred 465 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 96 kt, which was excessively fast, and the aircraft descended at a hard rate of minus 455 fpm; the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.4 m from the centreline.
The total landing distance was 1,296 m, representing 61 % of the runway, and the rollout remained slightly misaligned by 13.3 m from the centreline.
To improve the score, reduce the threshold height and speed to meet target values and aim to touch down within the designated zone at a lower speed, which will also lessen the hard descent rate and improve alignment.
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