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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.
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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: no landing flap set, centreline 1.1° off, against a 1° limit and wings 21° of bank, against a 10° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,293 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,293 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 304 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Extra 330 taxied to runway 36 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield and commenced the takeoff roll, covering 334 m which represented 26 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 83 kt. Ambient conditions were 17 °C with a wind of 13 kt from 322°, providing an 11 kt headwind component and an 8 kt cross-wind component.
The aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 36, flying a distance of less than 1 nm in 40 seconds.
Continuing the left-hand pattern, the cross-wind leg extended 1 nm and was completed in 27 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft described a 2 nm arc with a 45° turn angle measured at 67.8°.
The downwind leg itself was 2 nm long and was flown in 54 seconds.
The base-leg turn covered another 2 nm arc, the 45° turn angle being 54.4°.
The base leg was 1 nm in length and was completed in 33 seconds.
The final turn to align with the runway spanned 1 nm and took 37 seconds.
On final approach to runway 36 the aircraft descended from 606 ft AGL to 33 ft AGL in 52 seconds and was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Touchdown occurred on runway 36, whose total length is 1,293 m. The threshold speed was 78 kt, the touchdown distance measured 303 m, and the touchdown speed was 63 kt. The vertical speed at touchdown was minus 224 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 15.0 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 17 °C with a wind of 15 kt from 323°, giving a 13 kt headwind and a 9 kt cross-wind component.
Rollout continued for a total landing distance of 604 m, representing 47 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s path was slightly misaligned by 14.8 m from the centreline during the rollout.
In summary, the flight covered a total of 9 nm, lasted 5 minutes, and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
The Extra 330 approached runway 36 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield with a descent from 606 ft agl to 33 ft agl completed in 52 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 78 kt.
Touchdown occurred 303 m down the runway at a speed of 63 kt, both rated good, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 224 fpm; the touchdown point was misaligned by 15.0 m from the centreline.
The total landing distance was 604 m, representing 47 % of the 1 293 m runway, and the rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 14.8 m from the centreline.
Improving lateral alignment at touchdown and maintaining that alignment through rollout will reduce the centreline deviations noted. Refining the approach to achieve a more precise aim point will help keep the touchdown and rollout positions within tighter tolerances.
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