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Improve the pattern base leg turn
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
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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.
Side view — the last 3,127 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 3,127 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 849 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Cessna 172SP began with a departure roll on runway 09 at KLDJ Linden. The takeoff distance was 342 meters, covering 36% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 61 knots. The local weather at the time of departure was 15°C with a wind of 0 knots at 2°. There was no crosswind or headwind present during takeoff.
The flight followed a left-hand pattern entry from runway 09 at KLDJ Linden, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles in 326 seconds. This was followed by a left-hand pattern crosswind from runway 09, covering less than 1 nautical mile in 21 seconds. The pattern downwind turn covered a distance of 11 nautical miles, with an angle to the runway of 45 degrees at 10.7°. The downwind leg covered 2 nautical miles in 54 seconds. The base leg turn covered 4 nautical miles with an angle to the runway of 45 degrees at 176.0°. The base leg itself covered less than 1 nautical mile in 21 seconds. The final turn covered less than 1 nautical mile in 19 seconds.
The landing on runway 09 at KLDJ Linden took place with a runway length of 953 meters. The height at the threshold was 55 feet above ground level, with a speed of 55 knots. The touchdown occurred 256 meters from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 50 knots and a vertical speed indicator (VSI) of -274 feet per minute. The local weather at the time of landing was 15°C with a wind of 0 knots at 4°. There was no crosswind or headwind present during landing. The total landing distance was 464 meters, covering 49% of the runway.
Taxiing to the parking from the runway took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 18 nautical miles, taking 70 minutes and using 7 kilograms of fuel.
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