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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 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.
The 291 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed from runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde, executing a departure roll of 250 m which represented 10 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 60 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, providing a 1 kt head-wind and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
A left-hand pattern entry was flown from runway 23, covering a distance of 1 nm in 79 seconds.
Subsequently the aircraft entered the left-hand pattern crosswind leg, traversing less than 1 nm in 21 seconds.
The downwind turn was executed over a 2 nm arc, with the aircraft turning 45 degrees to the runway and a measured angle of 18.9 degrees.
During the downwind leg the aircraft flew less than 1 nm in 21 seconds before turning inbound.
The final approach to runway 05 was conducted from the south-west, with a heading of 52.0 degrees at 1 nm and an altitude of 181 ft AGL.
Landing was completed on runway 05, whose length is 2 ,493 m. The threshold speed was 55 kt, touchdown occurred 294 m down the runway at 48 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 44 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 3.8 m to the right of the centreline. Total landing distance measured 465 m, representing 19 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was judged very good.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 7 nm, took 6 minutes, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
Aircraft Sirius established a final approach to runway 05 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the south-west, tracking a heading of 52.0° at 1 nm and 181 ft agl. Local conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, including a 1 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 55 kt as the aircraft entered the flare.
Touchdown occurred 294 m down the runway at a speed of 48 kt and a rate of -44 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.8 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 465 m, representing 19 % of the 2,493 m runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
To tighten lateral accuracy, the crew should aim to centre the aircraft within a tighter margin at touchdown, reducing the 3.8 m offset. Maintaining the current speed and rate control will preserve the overall high performance reflected in the 96.6 % score.
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