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Improve the pattern downwind leg
The 45-degrees-behind-the-wing cue assumes you can turn your head and use peripheral vision. Downwind spacing cues like "put the wingtip halfway up the strut" assume a fixed, known eyepoint. Neither survives a monitor unmodified. If you fly on a fixed monitor, stop pretending and fly a numbers-based circuit.
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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: six checks at the point nearest 500 ft above the runway after the base turn. 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 2,488 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 308 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Black Square Commander 114TC N177AQ taxied to runway 05 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the take-off roll. The aircraft accelerated over 606 m, representing 24 % of the available runway, and lifted off at 80 kt. Ambient conditions were 20 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 030°, providing a 6 kt head-wind component and a 2 kt cross-wind component.
During the approach the aircraft entered a right-hand pattern for runway 05. The entry segment covered less than 1 nm in 19 seconds, followed by a right-hand crosswind leg of less than 1 nm in 20 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm at an angle of 83.8° to the runway, after which the downwind leg extended 2 nm in 73 seconds. The base turn covered 2 nm at a 42.9° angle, and the base leg was less than 1 nm in 19 seconds. The final turn was less than 1 nm in 43 seconds, placing the aircraft on final approach from the south-west on a heading of 53.0° at 1 nm and 230 ft AGL. Weather at this stage was 19 °C with a wind of 6 kt from 028°, giving a 6 kt head-wind and a 2 kt cross-wind.
The aircraft touched down on runway 05, whose total length is 2 493 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 72 kt, above the target. Touchdown occurred 311 m down the runway at 58 kt with a vertical speed of minus 69 fpm, and the wheel track was offset 3.6 m from the centreline. The total landing distance measured 552 m, equivalent to 22 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was judged very good.
In the rollout phase the aircraft remained aligned with the runway centreline and decelerated to a stop without deviation, confirming the previously noted very good alignment.
Overall, the flight covered 8 nm, required approximately 6 minutes, and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
Black Square Commander 114TC N177AQ completed a final approach to runway 05 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the south-west on a heading of 53.0° at 1 nm and 230 ft agl. Local weather was 19 °C with wind 6 kt from 28°, providing a 6 kt headwind and 2 kt crosswind component.
The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was well above target at 72 kt during the flare.
Touchdown occurred 311 m down the runway at a speed of 58 kt, both described as good, with an excellent touchdown rate of minus 69 fpm. The aircraft landed slightly off centreline by 3.6 m, and the total landing distance was 552 m, representing 22 % of the 2 493 m runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
With a score of 99.8 % the landing was outstanding; reducing the threshold speed toward the target value and tightening centreline alignment by a few metres would bring performance to the next level.
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