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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Apply small rudder corrections to track the centreline against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted 14 m off the centreline, and a heading variation of 0.9° usually follows into the initial climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings-level runway heading held through the climb
Arrival
Add power on final to hold 65 kt across the threshold.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 54 kt, 11 kt below VREF, and low energy like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown at 288 fpm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 65 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 · 15 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 6.9° against the runway's 3° and centreline 6.1° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 499 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 499 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 19 m short of the threshold. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 172 taxied to runway 28 at EDSH Backnang-Heiningen Airfield and commenced the departure roll; the aircraft lifted off after a takeoff run of 268 m, representing 54 % of the runway, at a liftoff speed of 50 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
During the final approach the aircraft descended from 888 ft AGL to 66 ft AGL in 50 seconds, satisfying the stabilisation gate requirements. The same weather as noted for takeoff prevailed, with temperature 15 °C and wind 2 kt from 269°.
The left-hand traffic pattern was entered from runway 28, covering less than 1 nm in 16 seconds. The subsequent cross-wind leg also spanned less than 1 nm in 5 seconds. The downwind turn was executed with an angle of 72.4° to the runway’s far end, followed by a downwind leg of 1 nm completed in 47 seconds. The base-leg turn was made at an angle of 27.9° to the runway (45°), covering 1 nm, and the base leg itself lasted 6 seconds over less than 1 nm. The final turn to the approach course covered less than 1 nm in 36 seconds before the final approach commenced.
Landing was made on runway 28, whose total length is 499 m. Touchdown occurred 19 m short of the threshold, with a threshold speed slightly below the target at 54 kt and an actual touchdown speed of 48 kt. The vertical speed at touchdown was minus 288 fpm and the touchdown point was offset 8.1 m from the centreline. The total landing distance recorded was 386 m, representing 77 % of the runway.
Rollout continued with a slight centreline deviation of 10.9 m, after which the aircraft completed the landing phase.
In total the flight covered 8 nm, required 12 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
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