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Arrival
On crosswind, correct promptly with bank and rudder to re-track the extended runway centreline before turning base.
What happened: The crosswind leg drifted -39° off the extended centreline, and turning base at only 34° to the runway like this usually follows as a shallow, early turn in rather than a square base leg.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level on the extended runway centreline heading.
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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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: five 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.
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 370 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced its departure roll. The aircraft lifted off after a take-off run of 462 m, representing 19 % of the available runway, at a liftoff speed of 71 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
During the approach the pilot entered a left-hand pattern on runway 23. The entry leg covered less than 1 nm in 19 seconds, followed by a left-hand cross-wind leg of less than 1 nm in 25 seconds. The downwind segment was less than 1 nm and lasted 16 seconds, after which the base-leg turn spanned 1 nm with a 45-degree turn angle measured at 34.1 °.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose total length is 2 490 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 75 kt and the aircraft touched down 368 m from the threshold at 54 kt. The touchdown rate was minus 92 fpm and runway alignment was perfect. Weather at the time remained 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, a cross-wind of 1 kt and a head-wind of 2 kt.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 517 m, equivalent to 21 % of the runway, and the aircraft maintained perfect alignment throughout the deceleration phase.
In total the flight covered 3 nm, taking 3 (units as given) and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
The aircraft touched down on runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde with a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 75 kt, both recorded as good.
Touchdown occurred 368 m down the runway at a speed of 54 kt, both judged good, with a vertical rate of -92 fpm rated excellent and runway touchdown alignment described as perfect.
The total landing distance measured 517 m, representing 21 % of the 2,490 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
With a landing score of 98.7 %, performance was outstanding; concentrating on maintaining the current flare technique will preserve the excellent vertical rate while a slight reduction in touchdown distance could add additional safety margin.
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