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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 1,224 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,224 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 150 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Extra 330 departed EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield from runway 18, achieving liftoff after a ground roll of 285 m, which represented 23 % of the available runway. The aircraft reached a liftoff speed of 78 kt under local conditions of 19 °C, wind 14 kt from 229°, a cross-wind component of 11 kt and a head-wind component of 9 kt.
During the approach the pilot entered a left-hand pattern on runway 18, covering less than 1 nm in 27 seconds for the entry and 1 nm in 25 seconds on the crosswind leg. The downwind turn spanned 2 nm with a 72.9° angle to the runway, followed by a 2 nm downwind leg completed in 53 seconds. The base-leg turn also measured 2 nm at a 57.9° angle, after which a 1 nm base leg was flown in 41 seconds, and the final turn covered less than 1 nm in 43 seconds. The final approach descended from 265 ft AGL to 28 ft AGL in 37 seconds and satisfied the stabilisation gates.
Landing was executed on runway 18, whose length is 1 224 m, with a threshold speed recorded slightly below the target at 66 kt. Touchdown occurred 149 m down the runway at a speed of 55 kt and a vertical rate of minus 108 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 8.1 m from the centreline, while the total landing distance measured 372 m, representing 30 % of the runway.
Rollout continued with a slight centreline deviation of 11.4 m and the aircraft came to a stop within the remaining runway length. Weather at the time of landing was 18 °C, wind 12 kt from 228°, a cross-wind component of 10 kt and a head-wind component of 8 kt.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, required approximately 4 minutes of flight time and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The Extra 330 completed the final approach to runway 18 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield, descending from 265 ft AGL to 28 ft AGL in 37 seconds while meeting the stabilisation-gate criteria; local conditions were 18 °C with a wind from 228° at 12 kt, comprising a 10-kt crosswind component and an 8-kt headwind.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a threshold speed that was slightly below the target at 66 kt, indicating the speed was within a narrow margin of the expected value.
Touchdown occurred 149 m down the runway at a speed of 55 kt, both described as good, with a smooth vertical rate of minus 108 fpm; the touchdown point was misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total distance of 372 m, representing 30 % of the 1 224 m runway, and the aircraft’s alignment during rollout was slightly misaligned by 11.4 m from the centreline.
Improving centreline tracking during the flare and rollout will reduce the observed 8.1-m and 11.4-m deviations, and confirming threshold speed is precisely on target will help maintain the strong overall score of 89.2 %.
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