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Ease the nose up sooner to lift off at 67 kt instead of letting speed build on the ground.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 82 kt, 15 kt above the target liftoff speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 67 kt at liftoff
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Arrival
Close the throttles earlier on final so you cross the threshold at 77 kt rather than carrying excess speed.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 86 kt, 9 kt above the 77 kt target, and the nose was then only raised 1.3° in the flare, taking out little of the sink. Crossing the threshold fast like this usually carries extra energy into a flare that barely arrests the sink, and that combination usually ends in a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 77 kt at the threshold.
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 · 12 stages, 11 in the score
Events
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: no landing flap set and centreline 1.9° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 2,100 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,100 m of the 2,488 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 460 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 195 commenced its takeoff roll on runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde, utilizing 1,889 m of runway, which represented 76 % of the available length. Liftoff was achieved at 82 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind from 270° at 2 kt; a cross-component of 1 kt and a head-component of 2 kt were noted.
Climb began shortly after departure, with the aircraft passing overhead Donderen in the province of Drenthe, the Netherlands. During the climb the altitude increased from 275 ft ASL to 561 ft ASL, a gain of 286 ft achieved in 1 minute while covering 2 nm of ground track.
In total the flight covered 3 nm, required 4 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
The Cessna 195 established a final approach to runway 05 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the south-west, tracking a heading of 52.0° at 1 NM and 289 ft agl in 20 °C temperature with a wind of 3 kt from 229°.
At threshold the height was good, but the threshold speed was too high at 86 kt.
Touchdown occurred 68 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 78 kt, described as a little fast, and the vertical rate was smooth at -148 fpm. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good.
The aircraft used a total landing distance of 2,043 m, representing 82 % of the 2,488 m runway, and rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.3 m from the centreline.
Reduce the threshold speed to bring it within the target range and refine the rollout technique to keep the aircraft closer to the centreline, which will improve alignment without affecting the safe aim point.
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