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Improve the pattern downwind leg
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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,490 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 327 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 0.19 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Aeroprakt A-32 Vixxen departed from runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde. The departure roll covered 685 m, which is 27 % of the runway, and liftoff was achieved at 50 kt. Local weather was temperature 11 °C, wind 1 kt from 169°, cross-wind 1 kt and head-wind 0 kt.
The aircraft entered a left-hand pattern for runway 23. The entry segment was less than 1 nm and was completed in 21 seconds.
Continuing the left-hand pattern, the cross-wind leg was less than 1 nm in length and lasted 23 seconds.
The downwind turn was executed at a 45-degree angle to the runway, covering 1 nm with a heading change to 91.6°.
The downwind leg extended 2 nm and was flown in 55 seconds.
The base-leg turn, also at a 45-degree angle, spanned 1 nm with a heading of 48.0°.
The base leg itself was less than 1 nm and lasted 36 seconds.
The final turn to align with the runway was less than 1 nm and required 35 seconds.
Final approach to runway 23 was from the north-east on a heading of 231.0°, commencing at 1 nm and 379 ft AGL.
Touchdown occurred at 329 m down the runway, with a speed of 32 kt and a vertical speed of minus 32 fpm. The threshold speed was 40 kt and the total landing distance was 390 m, representing 16 % of the runway. Runway alignment was maintained throughout.
Runway rollout alignment remained perfect until the aircraft came to a stop.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 7 nm, taking 7, and used 1 kg of fuel.
The Aeroprakt A-32 Vixxen established the final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the north-east, tracking a heading of 231.0° at 1 nm and 379 ft agl. Local weather was 11 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 169°, giving a crosswind component of 1 kt and no headwind.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good height and the threshold speed was good at 40 kt, indicating an appropriate energy state for the flare.
Touchdown occurred 329 m down the runway, with a speed of 32 kt that was noted as a little fast. The vertical rate was perfect at minus 32 fpm and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The total landing distance measured 390 m, representing 16 % of the 2 ,493 m runway, and rollout alignment remained perfect throughout the deceleration.
With a final score of 98.2 % the landing was strong; reducing touchdown speed slightly will tighten the margin to the target speed while preserving the excellent alignment and rate already demonstrated.
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