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Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 202 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 341 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 504 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 504 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 134 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Bell 206B3 JetRanger III taxied from the parking area to the runway in 6 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nm.
During the takeoff roll the aircraft accelerated from 49 kt to 60 kt and lifted off, reaching 7 ft above the runway spot after 3 seconds.
Climb commenced overhead Clacton-on-Sea, with the altitude increasing from 43 ft asl to 1,099 ft asl - a gain of 1,056 ft - in 1 minute while covering 2 nm.
Level cruise began over Little Clacton and was maintained for 6 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 12 nm.
Descent started 1 mile south-west of Clacton-on-Sea, descending from 1,068 ft asl to 531 ft asl - a loss of 536 ft - in 2 minutes and covering 2 nm.
The approach started 474 ft above the landing spot at 70 kt, decelerating to 64 kt over 62 seconds while traversing 1 nm.
Touchdown occurred with a vertical speed of 342 fpm and a ground speed of 56 kt.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 21 nm, lasted 16 minutes, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
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