Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
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.
Read more in Pattern WorkStart to finish · 14 stages, 13 scored
Events
Events
Events
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 1,866 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 228 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The DA-50 departed Inverness Airport (EGPE) from runway 23, applying a take-off roll of 529 m which represented 28 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 82 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
During the approach the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern on runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 24 seconds for the initial entry and less than 1 nm in 15 seconds for the cross-wind segment. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm at an angle of 67.3° to the runway, followed by a 2 nm downwind leg completed in 49 seconds. The base turn covered 1 nm at an angle of 53.9°, and the subsequent base leg was under 1 nm in 21 seconds. The final turn was also under 1 nm and lasted 24 seconds. The final approach descended from 341 ft AGL to 23 ft AGL in 30 seconds and met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing was executed on runway 23, whose length is 1,866 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 77 kt, and touchdown occurred 226 m down the runway at 68 kt with a vertical speed of minus 59 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was perfect, and the weather remained 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a cross-wind of 1 kt and a head-wind of 2 kt.
In total the flight covered 6 nm, took 4 (units as given), and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport was conducted with a descent from 341 ft agl to 23 ft agl in 30 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates, resulting in a perfect score of 100.0 %.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and achieved the expected threshold speed of 77 kt, both described as good.
Touchdown occurred 226 m down the runway, which is 1,866 m long, at a speed of 68 kt that was judged good, with a touchdown rate of minus 59 fpm rated excellent and runway touchdown alignment perfect.
Maintain the current precision of the descent profile and touchdown point, as the performance already meets the highest standards; continued attention to these parameters will preserve the excellent results.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values