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Settle the descent rate
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 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. These checks are the approach's score.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,614 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 225 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 152 taxied to runway 11 at MDST Cibao International Airport and commenced the departure roll, achieving a take-off distance of 235 m (9 % of the runway) and lifting off at 38 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, no cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
The aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 11, covering less than 1 nm in 53 seconds.
Subsequently it flew the left-hand pattern crosswind leg, again covering less than 1 nm, this time in 21 seconds.
During the pattern downwind turn the aircraft described a 1 nm arc with an angle to the runway of 47.0°.
The downwind leg extended 3 nm and was completed in 155 seconds.
The base-leg turn spanned 2 nm with an angle to the runway of 37.1°.
The base leg itself was less than 1 nm and required 42 seconds.
The final turn to the approach course was less than 1 nm and lasted 27 seconds.
On final approach to runway 11 the aircraft descended from 846 ft AGL to 25 ft AGL in 85 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing was executed on runway 11, whose length is 2 614 m. The threshold speed was slightly below target at 48 kt. Touchdown occurred 223 m down the runway at 36 kt with a vertical speed of minus 36 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 5.7 m from the centreline, resulting in a total landing distance of 396 m (15 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was recorded as very good.
The flight covered a total distance of 9 nm, took 8 (units as provided) and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The Cessna 152 approached runway 11 at MDST Cibao International Airport descending from 846 ft agl to 25 ft agl in 85 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates, indicating the approach met the required criteria.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good height and a threshold speed of 48 kt, noted as a little below the target, completing the flare from the final descent profile.
Touchdown occurred 223 m down the runway at a speed of 36 kt with a perfect vertical rate of minus 36 fpm; the touchdown point was slightly off centreline by 5.7 m.
The rollout covered a total of 396 m, representing 15 % of the 2 614 m runway, and runway-rollout alignment was very good.
To tighten the approach, adjust the final-approach speed to meet the target value, and refine the final heading to reduce the 5.7 m centreline offset, which will further improve the already strong 92.1 % score.
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