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Be established on the glideslope before the gate, with small corrections made early rather than a large one late.
What happened: The approach was off the glideslope at the stabilisation gate.
Watch for: Glideslope indication at the gate
See Arrival Approach
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 · 16 stages, 14 in the score
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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: 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.
At the 300 ft gate: glideslope 6.3° against the runway's 3.5° and centreline 13.2° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,978 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 284 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 taxied to runway 30 at EGPK Glasgow Prestwick and commenced the take-off roll. The aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 341 m, representing 11 % of the available runway, and lifted off at 65 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, giving a 2 kt head-wind component and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
During the approach the flight executed a left-hand pattern entry from runway 30, covering less than 1 nm in 22 seconds, followed by a left-hand crosswind leg of under 1 nm in 26 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with an angle to the runway of 152.5°, after which the downwind leg was completed in under 1 nm in 27 seconds. The base-leg turn again covered 1 nm, aligning the aircraft to 9.4° to the runway. On final approach the aircraft descended from 622 ft agl to 51 ft agl in 33 seconds and met the stabilisation gate criteria.
The landing was executed on runway 30, whose total length is 2 978 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 72 kt, and touchdown occurred 283 m down the runway at 55 kt with a smooth vertical speed of minus 120 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was described as perfect, and the local weather remained 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, maintaining the same head-wind and cross-wind components as earlier.
Rollout continued without deviation; the total landing distance measured 425 m, equivalent to 14 % of the runway, and the aircraft remained perfectly aligned throughout the rollout phase.
In total the flight covered 3 nm, required approximately 3 minutes of flight time, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 30 at EGPK Glasgow Prestwick Airport descended from 622 ft AGL to 51 ft AGL in 33 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the aircraft established a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 72 kt.
Touchdown occurred 283 m down the runway at a good speed of 55 kt, with a smooth vertical rate of minus 120 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment.
The aircraft rolled out over a total landing distance of 425 m, representing 14 % of the 2 978 m runway, and maintained perfect rollout alignment.
Overall the landing was well executed; maintaining the current descent profile and confirming the touchdown point remains near the 300 m aim point will preserve the high performance while allowing for minor refinements.
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