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Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 1.2 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 1.2 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 186 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 462 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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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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: centreline 2.9° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,731 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 147 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Partenavia P68B Blue-Black performed its departure roll on runway 11 at EKRK Copenhagen Roskilde Airport, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 61 kt. The take-off run consumed 310 m of runway, representing 17 % of the available length, under local conditions of 15 °C temperature, a 12 kt wind from 280°, a 3 kt cross-wind component and an 11 kt tail-wind component.
During the approach phase the aircraft entered a right-hand pattern for runway 11, covering less than 1 nm in 56 seconds. It then proceeded through a right-hand cross-wind segment of less than 1 nm in 4 seconds, followed by a downwind turn of 1 nm with a 78.8° angle to the runway (45° turn). The downwind leg spanned less than 1 nm in 17 seconds before turning final. The final approach to runway 29 was flown from the south-east on a heading of 296.0° at 1 nm and 204 ft AGL.
Landing was executed on runway 29, which is 1,731 m long. The threshold speed was recorded at 71 kt and the aircraft touched down 145 m from the threshold at a speed of 58 kt. The touchdown rate was minus 224 fpm and the touchdown point was offset 5.7 m to the right of the centreline. Total landing distance measured 260 m, equivalent to 15 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was judged very good.
The rollout continued smoothly after touchdown, with the aircraft remaining well aligned on the centreline until it came to a stop.
In total the flight covered 5 nm, required 6 minutes of elapsed time and consumed 4 kg of fuel.
The Aeroprakt A-32 Vixxen established the final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the north-east, tracking a heading of 231.0° at 1 nm and 379 ft agl. Local weather was 11 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 169°, giving a crosswind component of 1 kt and no headwind.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good height and the threshold speed was good at 40 kt, indicating an appropriate energy state for the flare.
Touchdown occurred 329 m down the runway, with a speed of 32 kt that was noted as a little fast. The vertical rate was perfect at minus 32 fpm and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The total landing distance measured 390 m, representing 16 % of the 2 ,493 m runway, and rollout alignment remained perfect throughout the deceleration.
With a final score of 98.2 % the landing was strong; reducing touchdown speed slightly will tighten the margin to the target speed while preserving the excellent alignment and rate already demonstrated.
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