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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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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 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 2.43 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
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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