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Improve the pattern crosswind leg
Each lap slightly wider and higher than the last, because you're unconsciously using the previous lap as your reference instead of the runway and the numbers. Invisible lap to lap, unmistakable across ten. This is the failure that only measurement catches, because your memory of lap three is gone by lap eight.
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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.
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 314 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TL3000 Sirius taxied to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport and commenced the departure roll. The takeoff distance was 209 m, representing 11 % of the runway, and liftoff was achieved at 60 kt. Local weather was temperature 15 °C with wind 2 kt from 269°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
After departure the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern for runway 23. The entry segment covered less than 1 nm in 26 seconds.
The subsequent left-hand crosswind leg spanned less than 1 nm and was completed in 18 seconds.
The downwind turn was executed at a 45-degree angle to the runway, covering 1 nm with a turn angle of 66.0°.
The downwind leg extended 2 nm and was flown in 91 seconds.
The base turn, also at a 45-degree angle to the runway, covered 1 nm with a turn angle of 35.0°.
The base leg was less than 1 nm in length and was completed in 34 seconds.
The final turn to align with the runway was less than 1 nm and took 17 seconds.
During final approach to runway 23 the aircraft descended from 337 ft AGL to 38 ft AGL in 66 seconds and met the stabilisation gates.
Touchdown occurred on runway 23, whose length is 1,866 m. The threshold speed was 53 kt and the touchdown distance measured 312 m. Touchdown speed was 46 kt, noted as a little fast, while the vertical speed was minus 56 fpm, described as excellent. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect and weather conditions remained temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 269°, cross-wind 1 kt and head-wind 2 kt.
The total landing distance was 470 m, representing 25 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
Overall, the flight covered a distance of 7 nm, required 7 minutes, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
The TL3000 Sirius conducted the final approach to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness, descending from 337 ft AGL to 38 ft AGL in 66 seconds and receiving a score on the stabilisation gates.
During the threshold and flare the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 53 kt; the touchdown point was good at 312 m, the touchdown speed of 46 kt was a little fast, the touchdown rate was excellent at minus 56 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
At touchdown the aircraft contacted the runway 312 m from the threshold, the speed was 46 kt, the vertical rate was minus 56 fpm, and alignment remained perfect.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 470 m, representing 25 % of the 1 866 m runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Reduce the touchdown speed slightly to bring it closer to the target speed, and fine-tune the flare height to maintain the excellent vertical rate while preserving the precise alignment.
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