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Improve the pattern crosswind leg
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: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: wings 15° of bank, against a 10° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,866 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 511 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TL3000 Sirius taxied to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport and commenced the take-off roll. The aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 251 m, representing 13 % of the runway, and lifted off at 62 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
During the approach the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 13 seconds. The subsequent left-hand crosswind leg also spanned less than 1 nm and required 19 seconds. The downwind turn was 1 nm with an angle to the runway of 106.7°, followed by a downwind leg of 1 nm completed in 54 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 1 nm with a 12.3° angle to the runway. On final approach the aircraft descended from 345 ft AGL to 36 ft AGL in 38 seconds and met the stabilisation gates.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose length is 1,866 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 54 kt. Touchdown occurred 82 m beyond the designated touchdown zone at a speed of 34 kt, with a vertical rate of minus 39 fpm and alignment described as very good. Local weather at landing remained 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a cross-wind of 1 kt and a head-wind of 2 kt. The total landing distance measured 586 m, equivalent to 31 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect as the aircraft decelerated and exited the runway.
In total the flight covered 5 nm, taking 4 minutes, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
The TL3000 Sirius made its final approach to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport, descending from 345 ft agl to 36 ft agl in 38 seconds and scoring on the stabilisation gates. Ambient temperature was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, comprising a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and achieved a threshold speed of 54 kt, matching the expected parameters for the approach.
Touchdown occurred 82 m beyond the designated touchdown zone with a speed of 34 kt, a touchdown rate of -39 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment described as very good.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 586 m, representing 31 % of the 1,866 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was perfect.
For future flights, a slight refinement of flare timing to bring the touchdown point closer to the aim point will reduce the 82 m overshoot, while the current speed and alignment values can be maintained as they already meet target criteria.
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