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Improve the pattern downwind leg
Spacing cues are relative to your eyepoint, so two simmers with different FOV settings following the same wingtip cue fly patterns half a mile different in width, and a wide FOV compresses depth so the runway on base looks further away than it is, biasing you towards a late turn. Pick a camera position and FOV, save it, and never change it, because every judgement you calibrate is calibrated to that picture.
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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: six checks at the point nearest 500 ft above the runway after the base turn. 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 267 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TL-96 Star taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the departure roll, covering a takeoff distance of 289 m which represents 12 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 69 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt headwind and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
After rotation, the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 23, flying a distance of less than 1 nm in 25 seconds before proceeding to the crosswind segment.
The left-hand crosswind leg continued for a distance of less than 1 nm and was completed in 22 seconds, maintaining alignment with runway 23.
Subsequently, the aircraft executed a downwind turn, covering 1 nm while turning to a 45° angle to the runway; the measured angle was 87.0°.
The downwind leg extended for 2 nm and was flown in 87 seconds, providing the aircraft with the required spacing before the base turn.
During the base leg turn, the aircraft covered 1 nm and adjusted to a 45° angle to the runway, recorded as 27.2°.
The final approach was conducted from the north-east on a heading of 232.0°, with the aircraft at 0 nm from the threshold and 190 ft above ground level.
Touchdown occurred on runway 23, whose length is 2 493 m. The threshold speed was 50 kt, the touchdown distance measured 269 m, and the touchdown speed was 29 kt. The descent rate at touchdown was -55 fpm and runway alignment was perfect; weather remained 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 269°, yielding a 1 kt headwind and 1 kt cross-wind.
The total landing roll was 310 m, representing 12 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment remained perfect.
In total, the flight covered 6 nm, required 5 (units as given) and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
The TL-96 Star entered the final approach to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the north-east, maintaining a heading of 232.0° at 0 nm and 190 ft agl. Local conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 269°, providing a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
At threshold the aircraft established a good height and a threshold speed of 50 kt, both described as good in the data.
Touchdown occurred 269 m down the runway at a speed of 29 kt, both noted as good, with a touchdown rate of minus 55 fpm rated excellent and runway touchdown alignment perfect.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 310 m, representing 12 % of the 2 493 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was perfect.
With a perfect score of 100.0 % the technique is already exemplary; continue to preserve the precise touchdown point and alignment while monitoring speed consistency to sustain this performance.
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