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Improve the pattern downwind leg
The one change that would have gained the most on this flight, and the guide passage for it.
The 45-degrees-behind-the-wing cue assumes you can turn your head and use peripheral vision. Downwind spacing cues like "put the wingtip halfway up the strut" assume a fixed, known eyepoint. Neither survives a monitor unmodified. If you fly on a fixed monitor, stop pretending and fly a numbers-based circuit.
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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 276 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde on runway 23, achieving a takeoff roll of 315 m which represented 13 % of the available runway. Liftoff occurred at 71 kt under calm wind conditions of 1 kt from 273°, with temperature 15 °C, no cross-wind and no head-wind component.
During the approach phase the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern for runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 19 seconds on the entry leg and less than 1 nm in 17 seconds on the crosswind leg. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with a 97.5° angle to the runway, followed by a 2 nm downwind leg completed in 69 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 1 nm at a 15.7° angle to the runway. The final approach was flown from the north-east on a heading of 231.0° at 1 nm and 90 ft AGL, maintaining the same ambient conditions of 15 °C temperature and 1 kt wind from 273°.
Landing was executed on runway 23, which is 2,493 m long. The threshold speed was recorded well above the target at 65 kt. Touchdown occurred 278 m down the runway at 44 kt with a descent rate of minus 64 fpm, and the aircraft aligned perfectly with the runway centreline. The total landing distance measured 511 m, representing 20 % of the runway length, and rollout alignment remained perfect.
In the rollout the aircraft decelerated along the runway maintaining precise alignment, completing the landing roll without deviation.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 6 nm, taking 5, and consumed -29 kg of fuel.
Gabriel White and Green conducted the final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the north-east, maintaining a heading of 231.0° at 1 NM and 90 ft AGL.
The aircraft achieved a good threshold height, but the threshold speed was well above target at 65 kt.
Touchdown occurred 278 m down the runway at a speed of 44 kt, with an excellent vertical rate of minus 64 fpm and perfect runway touchdown alignment.
The total landing distance was 511 m, representing 20 % of the 2,493 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
With a final score of 99.7 %, the landing was outstanding; reducing the threshold speed to the intended target will further optimise the approach profile.
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