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Make small rudder corrections to track a point at the far end of the runway and close the offset before touchdown.
What happened: You touched down with the centreline offset by 5.1 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline alignment, keeping offset inside the limit.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 14 stages, 13 in the score
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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 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: no landing flap set, sink rate 1,623 fpm, more than the glideslope needed and speed 49 kt FAST on the reference speed of 70 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,614 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 494 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Robin DR400 taxied to runway 11 at MDST Cibao International Airport and commenced the departure roll, covering a takeoff distance of 406 m (16 % of the runway). Liftoff was achieved at 57 kt while the ambient temperature was 15 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, with no cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
After liftoff the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 11, flying a distance of less than 1 nm in 51 seconds.
The subsequent left-hand pattern crosswind leg from runway 11 was completed in 21 seconds, again covering a distance of less than 1 nm.
During the downwind segment of the pattern the aircraft travelled 4 nm in 114 seconds.
The base-leg turn was executed over a 2 nm arc, with the aircraft turning at a 45-degree angle to the runway and a measured 5.5° deviation.
On final approach to runway 11 the aircraft descended from 758 ft AGL to 32 ft AGL in 50 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing was made on runway 11, whose length is 2,614 m, with a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 73 kt. Touchdown occurred 52 m beyond the touchdown zone at 52 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 49 fpm and a lateral offset of 6.8 m from the centreline. Weather conditions remained temperature 15 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, no cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind.
In total the flight covered 9 nm, required 6 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 11 at MDST Cibao International Airport was conducted from 758 ft AGL down to 32 ft AGL in 50 seconds, and the aircraft met the stabilisation-gate criteria throughout the descent.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold speed of 73 kt and a proper height, then flared to a touchdown speed of 52 kt. The flare produced a perfect touchdown rate of minus 49 fpm and the aircraft touched down 52 m beyond the designated touchdown zone.
Touchdown occurred with the aircraft laterally offset by 6.8 m from the runway centreline, while the runway length of 2,614 m and the prevailing weather-temperature 15 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 0 kt, tailwind 1 kt-were within normal limits.
To improve the already solid 84.5 % score, focus on tightening lateral alignment to reduce the 6.8 m offset and aim for the standard 300 m (1,000 ft) aim point to keep the touchdown location within the touchdown zone.
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