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Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 9.5 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Take the power back earlier on final, so the aircraft settles onto the path and the speed comes back to 63 kt together. Do not push down for the height: that only adds speed.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 128 ft agl, 78 ft agl above the 50 ft agl target, and at 88 kt, 25 kt over the 63 kt threshold speed. High and fast together is energy the runway has to absorb, and this touchdown came 100 m beyond the aim point.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 63 kt on short final, then 50 ft agl over the threshold
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 17 stages, 15 in the score
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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 975 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 975 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 557 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 172 taxied from the parking area to runway 16 at LIRU Rome Urbe Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 16. The take-off roll was 456 m, which is 47 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 58 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 16 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 0 kt.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 31 seconds, averaging 959 fpm and reaching 71 kt at the top of the climb.
The left-hand circuit lasted 4 minutes. The downwind leg was 3 nm and was flown in 85 seconds at 1,070 ft agl. The base leg was less than 1 nm and was completed in 21 seconds.
Final approach to runway 16 began with a descent from 671 ft agl to 157 ft agl in 27 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, centreline and speed; they were not met for glideslope and wings level.
Landing was on runway 16, whose length is 975 m. The threshold height at 128 ft agl was excessively over target and the threshold speed was excessively high at 88 kt. The flare was described as perfect, though the aircraft crossed the threshold high. Touchdown occurred after more than 50 % of the runway length had been used; touchdown speed was 69 kt, a little fast, with a firm rate of -322 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect and there was no bounce.
Total landing distance was 826 m, 85 % of the runway, and rollout alignment remained perfect. Local weather at landing was temperature 15 °C, wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 0 kt.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 8 nm in 9 minutes and used 0 kg of fuel.
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