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Improve the pattern downwind leg
Spacing cues are relative to your eyepoint, so two simmers with different FOV settings following the same wingtip cue fly patterns half a mile different in width, and a wide FOV compresses depth so the runway on base looks further away than it is, biasing you towards a late turn. Pick a camera position and FOV, save it, and never change it, because every judgement you calibrate is calibrated to that picture.
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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: six checks where the approach path is 500 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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,488 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 344 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Commander 114 departed from runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde, using a take-off roll of 416 m which represented 17 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 77 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
During the descent the aircraft reduced altitude from 405 ft AGL to 56 ft AGL in 48 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate criteria before final approach.
The approach sequence began with a right-hand pattern entry from runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 70 seconds, followed by a right-hand pattern crosswind segment of less than 1 nm in 11 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with a 45-degree angle to the runway measured at 41.7°, and the downwind leg covered less than 1 nm in 13 seconds. The final approach to runway 05 proceeded with the described descent and was completed within the prescribed parameters.
Landing was executed on runway 05, which is 2,488 m long. The threshold speed was slightly below target at 65 kt. Touchdown occurred 342 m down the runway at 55 kt with a vertical speed of minus 159 fpm, and the touchdown point was offset by 4.4 m from the centreline. Weather at landing was 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
In total the flight covered 5 nm, lasted 5 minutes, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 05 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde began with a descent from 405 ft agl to 56 ft agl completed in 48 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft maintained a good threshold height, while the threshold speed was a little below target at 65 kt.
Touchdown occurred 342 m down the runway at a speed of 55 kt with a rate of -159 fpm, and the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 4.4 m from the centreline.
With a score of 96.0 % the landing was strong overall; refining the approach speed to meet the target and tightening lateral alignment to the centreline will further improve performance.
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