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Retract gear by 400 feet
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Raise the gear promptly once a positive rate is confirmed, before reaching the gate altitude.
What happened: Gear retraction was late relative to the target height for this stage of the climb.
Watch for: Landing gear position against the retraction height gate.
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.
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 326 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft Sierra C24R taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced its departure roll. The aircraft lifted off after a take-off run of 417 m, representing 17 % of the available runway, at a liftoff speed of 68 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 273°, no cross-wind and no head-wind component.
En-route, level cruise was initiated over Donderen in the province of Drenthe and persisted for 2 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 3 nm.
For the final approach the aircraft was configured for runway 23 at EHGG, approaching from the north-east on a heading of 236.0° at the threshold fix of 0 nm and an altitude of minus 35 ft AGL. Weather remained unchanged with a temperature of 15 °C and a wind of 1 kt from 273°, zero cross-wind and zero head-wind.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose length is 2,493 m. The threshold speed was slightly above the target at 75 kt. Touchdown occurred 329 m down the runway at a speed of 59 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 66 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. The total landing distance measured 645 m, equivalent to 26 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 5 nm, taking 3 minutes, and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde was flown from the north-east on a heading of 236.0° at a distance of 0 nm and an altitude of -35 ft agl. Local weather was 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 273°, resulting in a crosswind of 0 kt and a headwind of 0 kt.
At threshold the height was reported as good and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 75 kt. The flare was executed in line with the good threshold height.
Touchdown occurred 329 m down the runway at a speed of 59 kt, with a vertical rate of -66 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The aircraft rolled out over a total landing distance of 645 m, representing 26 % of the 2,493 m runway, and rollout alignment remained perfect.
With a final score of 99.6 % the landing was essentially flawless; the only noticeable deviation was the threshold speed being slightly above the target, so tightening speed control to meet the exact target will further optimise performance. Maintaining the current touchdown point and alignment will preserve the excellent results.
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