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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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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: centreline 16.2° off, against a 1° limit and speed 7 kt SLOW on the reference speed of 74 kt.
Side view — the last 880 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 880 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 320 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied to runway 26 at EGHP Popham Airfield and commenced the departure roll. The take-off run consumed 614 m, representing 70 % of the available runway, and the aircraft lifted off at 69 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind from 269° at 2 kt; the cross-wind component was zero and the head-wind component was 2 kt.
Climb began directly overhead EGHP, with the airplane accelerating from 827 ft asl to 1 039 ft asl, an altitude gain of 212 ft achieved in 1 minute while covering 1 nm.
Level cruise was established one mile west of EGHP and persisted for 3 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 6 nm at a constant altitude.
A go-around was executed on runway 26 at EGHP when the aircraft was at 0 ft agl, prompting a climb away from the approach path before a subsequent attempt.
During the final approach to runway 26, the descent proceeded from 506 ft agl to 62 ft agl in 47 seconds, and the aircraft met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing occurred on runway 26, whose total length is 880 m. The threshold height of 61 ft agl was above the target, while the threshold speed of 69 kt was slightly below the target. Touchdown was recorded 317 m down the runway at a speed of 53 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 233 fpm; runway-touchdown alignment was very good. Weather remained 15 °C with a wind from 270° at 2 kt, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 471 m, equivalent to 53 % of the runway, and runway-rollout alignment was perfect.
In summary, the flight covered 32 nm, consumed 0 kg of fuel, and the available segment times total approximately 4 minutes 47 seconds; a complete flight-time figure was not provided.
The Beechcraft Sierra C24R completed the final approach to runway 26 at EGHP Popham Airfield, descending from 506 ft agl to 62 ft agl in 47 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At the threshold the aircraft was 61 ft agl, which was above the target height, and the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 69 kt.
Touchdown occurred 317 m down the runway with a speed of 53 kt, a vertical rate of minus 233 fpm, and runway-touchdown alignment was very good.
The total landing distance was 471 m, representing 53 % of the 880 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
To tighten the approach, the pilot should aim to achieve the target threshold height and manage the flare to reduce the touchdown rate, thereby improving consistency while maintaining the current good alignment and speed control.
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