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Settle the descent rate
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 · 17 stages, 15 scored
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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 906 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 906 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 243 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Taylorcraft BC-12D taxied to runway 22 at EGHN Isle of Wight / Sandown Airport and commenced the departure roll. The aircraft lifted off after a take-off distance of 213 m, representing 23 % of the runway, at a liftoff speed of 46 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, including a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind component.
The aircraft entered a right-hand pattern from runway 22, covering less than 1 nm in 18 seconds.
A right-hand pattern cross-wind leg followed, also less than 1 nm and completed in 17 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft flew a 1 nm arc to a 45° angle to the runway, recording a turn angle of 60.7°.
The downwind leg extended 1 nm and was flown in 60 seconds.
The base-leg turn was a 1 nm maneuver to a 45° angle to the runway with a turn angle of 41.6°.
The base leg itself was less than 1 nm and lasted 14 seconds.
The final turn to the runway approach was less than 1 nm and required 32 seconds.
A go-around was executed on runway 22 at EGHN, climbing to 196 ft AGL before re-establishing the approach.
The subsequent final approach descended from 241 ft AGL to 29 ft AGL in 13 seconds and satisfied the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 22 was achieved with a threshold speed of 39 kt, slightly below the target. Touchdown occurred 240 m down the runway at 26 kt with a smooth vertical rate of minus 116 fpm; the touchdown point was 14.8 m off the centreline. The total landing distance measured 285 m, equivalent to 31 % of the 906 m runway, and the rollout ended 15.3 m off centreline.
In total the flight covered 9 nm, took 8 (units as given), and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 22 at EGHN was conducted with a descent from 241 ft AGL to 29 ft AGL over 13 seconds and the aircraft was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the aircraft established a speed of 39 kt, slightly below the target, and achieved a good threshold height. The flare resulted in a touchdown distance of 240 m, a touchdown speed of 26 kt that was good, and a smooth touchdown rate of minus 116 fpm; however, the runway touchdown point was misaligned by 14.8 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 285 m, representing 31 % of the 906 m runway, and the rollout alignment was misaligned by 15.3 m from the centreline.
Local conditions were temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 269°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind.
Refine centreline tracking to reduce the 14-15 m offset observed at touchdown and during rollout, and adjust the approach to achieve the target threshold speed more precisely. These adjustments will help convert the solid 81.2 % score into an even higher performance.
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