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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.
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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: six 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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 906 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 906 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 144 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied to runway 22 at EGHN Isle of Wight / Sandown Airport and commenced the departure roll. The take-off run required 238 m, representing 26 % of the available runway, and liftoff was achieved at 50 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
During the approach the pilot entered a right-hand pattern from runway 22, covering less than 1 nm in 20 seconds. The subsequent right-hand cross-wind segment also spanned less than 1 nm and was completed in 17 seconds. The downwind turn was 1 nm with an angle to the runway of 56.4°, followed by a downwind leg of 2 nm flown in 82 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 1 nm at an angle of 26.1°, after which the base leg was less than 1 nm and lasted 12 seconds. The final turn to the runway was completed in less than 1 nm within 27 seconds.
Landing was executed on runway 22, whose length is 906 m. The threshold speed was slightly below the target at 36 kt. Touchdown occurred 138 m down the runway at 27 kt with a vertical rate of minus 121 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 8.1 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 198 m, equivalent to 22 % of the runway length. Weather conditions at landing matched those recorded for departure.
The rollout continued with the aircraft remaining slightly misaligned, the centreline offset persisting at 8.1 m. No further taxi-in details were provided.
In total the flight covered 4 nm, taking 5 and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
The approach was made to runway 22 at EGHN Isle of Wight / Sandown Airport under temperature 15 °C and a wind of 2 kt from 270°, with a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft maintained a good threshold height, and the threshold speed was a little below target at 36 kt.
At touchdown the aircraft landed 138 m down the runway, a distance judged good, with a touchdown speed of 27 kt also good and a smooth touchdown rate of minus 121 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 198 m, representing 22 % of the 906 m runway, and the rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline.
Focus on reducing the lateral deviation at touchdown and rollout to bring the touchdown point closer to the centreline, and adjust the approach to achieve the target threshold speed more precisely.
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