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Improve the pattern crosswind leg
The one change that would have gained the most on this flight, and the guide passage for it.
Each lap slightly wider and higher than the last, because you're unconsciously using the previous lap as your reference instead of the runway and the numbers. Invisible lap to lap, unmistakable across ten. This is the failure that only measurement catches, because your memory of lap three is gone by lap eight.
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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.
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 350 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Black Square Commander 114TC N177AQ taxied to runway 05 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the take-off roll. The aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 536 m, representing 22 % of the available runway, and lifted off at 78 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 273°, no cross-wind component and zero head-wind.
After departure, the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern for runway 05, covering a distance of less than 1 nm in 42 seconds.
Subsequently, the aircraft proceeded onto the left-hand crosswind leg of the pattern, again traveling less than 1 nm and completing the segment in 31 seconds.
The downwind leg followed, with the aircraft covering less than 1 nm in 4 seconds before turning for final.
For the final approach the aircraft was aligned with runway 23, approaching from the north-east on a heading of 231.0° at 0 nm and 116 ft AGL.
Landing was executed on runway 23, which is 2,493 m long. The threshold speed was slightly above the target at 68 kt, and touchdown occurred 351 m down the runway at 50 kt with a descent rate of minus 20 fpm. Alignment at touchdown was very good. Weather at the time was 20 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 222°, no cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind. The total landing distance measured 562 m, equivalent to 23 % of the runway, and rollout alignment remained very good.
During rollout the aircraft remained on the centreline and decelerated safely, completing the landing roll without deviation.
In total the flight covered 3 nm, required a duration of 3, and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
The aircraft Black Square Commander 114TC N177AQ established the final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the north-east, maintaining a heading of 231.0° at 0 nm and 116 ft AGL. Local conditions were 20 °C with a wind from 222° at 3 kt, providing a 3 kt headwind and no crosswind.
At threshold the height was good and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 68 kt. The wind component remained a 3 kt headwind, supporting the flare.
Touchdown occurred 351 m down the runway at a speed of 50 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 20 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The total landing distance was 562 m, representing 23 % of the 2 493 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Maintain the current technique but fine-tune speed control to achieve the exact target threshold speed, which will further optimise the landing profile and preserve the excellent overall score.
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