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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: 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 2,488 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 619 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Piper PA-28 Arrow III taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the departure roll. The aircraft achieved a takeoff distance of 594 m, representing 24 % of the available runway, and lifted off at 91 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt head-wind component and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
During the approach phase the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 41 seconds, then proceeded to a left-hand crosswind leg of less than 1 nm in 16 seconds. A downwind turn was flown for 1 nm with a 45° angle to the runway measured at 29.9°. The final approach to runway 05 was executed from the southwest on a heading of 49.0°, descending to 0 nm and 97 ft AGL. Weather at this stage was 18 °C with a wind of 15 kt from 217°, producing a 4 kt cross-wind and a 15 kt tail-wind component.
The aircraft touched down on runway 05, whose length is 2,488 m, with a threshold speed reported as well above the target at 85 kt. Touchdown occurred 179 m beyond the designated touchdown zone at a speed of 64 kt and a vertical rate of minus 46 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 4.2 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance recorded was 1,294 m, equivalent to 52 % of the runway.
Rollout continued with the aircraft remaining slightly off the centreline by 14.8 m as it decelerated along the runway. No further deviations were noted before the aircraft completed the landing sequence.
In total the flight covered 5 nm, required 4 units of time as reported, and consumed 104 kg of fuel.
The Piper PA-28 Arrow III completed a final approach to runway 05 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the south-west, maintaining a heading of 49.0° at 0 nm and 97 ft AGL in temperature 18 °C with wind 15 kt from 217° (crosswind 4 kt, tailwind 15 kt). The aircraft’s overall score was 93.3 %.
The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was well above target at 85 kt.
Touchdown occurred 179 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 64 kt that was good and a touchdown rate of minus 46 fpm that was perfect; the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 4.2 m from the centreline.
The total landing distance was 1,294 m, representing 52 % of the 2,488 m runway, and the rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 14.8 m from the centreline.
To improve future performance, aim to touch down within the designated touchdown zone to reduce the overshoot distance, and focus on maintaining centreline alignment through the rollout to minimize lateral deviation.
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