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Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to stop the drift as soon as it starts in the flare.
What happened: On the landing you drifted 8 m off the centreline, and that kind of lateral drift usually carries through to a touchdown point 8.1 m off centreline and into a rollout that is still skewed off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Heading indicator: track straight down the extended runway centreline through touchdown and rollout.
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 15 stages, 14 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: 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 3.8° off, against a 1° limit and wings 12° of bank, against a 10° 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 1,988 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 356 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft Baron 58 departed Kerry Airport (EIKY) from runway 26, achieving a take-off roll of 396 m which represented 20 % of the available runway. Liftoff occurred at 89 kt under calm meteorological conditions with a temperature of 15 °C, a wind from 270° at 2 kt, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
The aircraft entered the right-hand traffic pattern from runway 26, covering a distance of less than 1 nm in 24 seconds.
Continuing the right-hand pattern, the cross-wind leg was flown for less than 1 nm in 28 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft described a 2 nm arc with a 45° angle to the runway measured at 77.7°.
The downwind leg extended 2 nm and was completed in 63 seconds.
The base-leg turn comprised a 2 nm arc with a 45° angle to the runway measured at 48.5°.
The base leg itself was less than 1 nm long and was flown in 11 seconds.
The final turn covered 1 nm and required 53 seconds to align with the runway centreline.
On final approach to runway 26 the aircraft descended from 379 ft AGL to 9 ft AGL in 36 seconds and met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Touchdown occurred on runway 26, whose length is 1,988 m, with a threshold speed of 91 kt, a touchdown distance of 355 m, a touchdown speed of 68 kt and a vertical speed of minus 112 fpm; the touchdown point was offset 8.1 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 651 m (33 % of the runway) and the aircraft remained misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline during the roll.
In total the flight covered 9 nm, required 4 minutes of elapsed time and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
The Beechcraft Baron 58 completed the final approach to runway 26 at EIKY Kerry Airport, descending from 379 ft agl to 9 ft agl in 36 seconds and receiving a score on the stabilisation gates.
At the threshold the aircraft maintained a speed of 91 kt, noted as slightly above the target, and the threshold height was reported as good.
Touchdown occurred 355 m down the runway at a speed of 68 kt, with a smooth vertical rate of minus 112 fpm; the touchdown point was offset 8.1 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total distance of 651 m, representing 33 % of the 1 988 m runway, and the aircraft remained slightly misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline during rollout.
Refining centreline tracking to reduce the 8.1 m offset will improve both touchdown precision and rollout alignment, and adjusting the approach speed to meet the target will further enhance the overall landing score.
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