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Retract gear by 400 feet
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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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: five checks where the approach path is 500 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.
The approach, gate by gate
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The Hawker H25B departed from runway 30 at EGPK Glasgow Prestwick Airport, achieving a take-off distance of 782 m (26 % of the runway) and lifting off at 134 kt. Ambient conditions were 17 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead Monkton (South Ayrshire, Scotland), where the aircraft rose from 992 ft asl to 2 414 ft asl, an increase of 1 423 ft achieved in 1 minute while covering 4 nm.
The first level cruise began 2 nm north-west of Troon (South Ayrshire, Scotland) and persisted for 3 minutes, during which 12 nm were flown.
Descent started 1 nm south-west of West Kilbride (North Ayrshire, Scotland); altitude fell from 2 925 ft asl to 2 198 ft asl, a loss of 727 ft in 2 minutes while traversing 4 nm.
A second level cruise was initiated 2 nm south-west of Saltcoats (North Ayrshire, Scotland) and lasted 3 minutes, covering an additional 6 nm.
Final approach to runway 12 at EGPK Glasgow Prestwick Airport involved a descent from 1 513 ft agl to 9 ft agl over 110 seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 12 was executed with a runway length of 2 731 m; the threshold speed was 112 kt, touchdown occurred 202 m down the runway at 104 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 98 fpm. Alignment was perfect and the local weather recorded 15 °C, wind 5 kt from 269°, a 3 kt cross-wind and a 4 kt tail-wind component. The total landing distance measured 893 m (33 % of the runway).
Rollout proceeded with perfect runway alignment, completing the landing phase without deviation.
In total the flight covered 31 nm, required approximately 10 minutes 50 seconds of flight time, and consumed 126 kg of fuel.
The Hawker H25B executed a stabilised approach at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and speed all within limits. The final approach to runway 12 at EGPK Glasgow Prestwick Airport descended from 1,513 ft agl to 9 ft agl in 110 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gates criteria.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 112 kt.
Touchdown occurred 202 m down the runway at a speed of 104 kt, with an excellent touchdown rate of minus 98 fpm and perfect runway touchdown alignment.
Rollout alignment was perfect and the total landing distance measured 893 m, representing 33 % of the 2,731 m runway.
With a score of 98.3 % the landing was highly proficient; a minor refinement would be to adjust the flare to place the touchdown point nearer the 300 m (1,000 ft) aim point, which would optimise runway utilisation while preserving the excellent performance demonstrated.
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