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On downwind, use small aileron and rudder corrections to hold the wings-parallel heading against the runway.
What happened: On the downwind leg the heading drifted 9.8° off the runway-parallel track.
Watch for: Heading indicator: parallel to the runway on downwind.
See Pattern Downwind
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 · 16 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: wings 14° of bank, against a 10° limit.
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 289 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone.
The rest of the report
The Cessna Skyhawk taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the departure roll. The take-off run consumed 403 m, representing 16 % of the available runway, and the aircraft lifted off at 69 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
During the approach the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern for runway 23, covering less than 1 nm in 22 seconds. The subsequent left-hand crosswind leg was also under 1 nm and required 18 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with a 110.3° angle to the runway, followed by a 1 nm downwind leg completed in 60 seconds. The base turn covered 1 nm at a 48.1° angle, the base leg was under 1 nm in 25 seconds, and the final turn was under 1 nm in another 25 seconds. The final approach to runway 23 was executed with successful scoring on the stabilisation gates.
From the final approach the aircraft descended from 321 ft AGL to 36 ft AGL in 46 seconds, establishing the required glide path for touchdown.
Touchdown occurred on runway 23, whose length is 2 490 m, with a good threshold height. The threshold speed was slightly above the target at 70 kt, while the touchdown speed was 51 kt and the touchdown distance measured 288 m. The aircraft achieved a touchdown rate of minus 45 fpm and maintained perfect runway-touchdown alignment. The total landing distance was 447 m, equivalent to 18 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment remained perfect as the aircraft decelerated to a stop.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 6 nm, took 5 (unspecified units) to complete, and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 36 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield was conducted with a descent from 454 ft agl to 30 ft agl in 45 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates. Local weather was 20 °C with wind 2 kt from 083°, a 2 kt cross-wind component and no head-wind.
At threshold the height was good and the threshold speed was slightly below target at 72 kt.
Touchdown occurred 281 m down the runway at a speed of 61 kt, with a vertical rate of minus 57 fpm and a lateral deviation of 5.3 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total distance of 710 m, representing 55 % of the 1 293 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
Fine-tune the approach speed to meet the target value and make small adjustments to maintain centreline alignment within a tighter tolerance; the overall performance was strong with a score of 87.2 %.
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