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Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 69 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 75 kt, 6 kt above the 69 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 69 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
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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 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 273 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Commander 114 taxied to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde and commenced the departure roll; the takeoff distance recorded was 444 m, equal to 18 % of the runway, and liftoff was achieved at 80 kt. Local weather at the time was temperature 16 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
The aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 23, covering a distance of less than 1 nm in 22 seconds.
Continuing the left-hand pattern, the cross-wind leg was flown for less than 1 nm in 15 seconds.
The downwind turn was executed with a 45° angle to the runway, spanning 1 nm and measured at an angle of 87.2°.
The downwind leg extended 2 nm and was completed in 60 seconds.
The base turn, also set at a 45° angle to the runway, covered 1 nm with an angle of 56.2°.
The base leg distance was less than 1 nm and was flown in 26 seconds.
The final turn covered less than 1 nm and lasted 32 seconds.
Landing was made on runway 23, whose length is 2,490 m; the threshold speed was slightly above target at 75 kt. Touchdown occurred 272 m down the runway at 57 kt with a descent rate of -63 fpm, and runway touchdown alignment was perfect. Weather at landing was temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind. Total landing distance was 515 m, representing 21 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment remained perfect.
The flight covered a total distance of 6nm, taking 4, and used 2 kg of fuel.
The aircraft approached runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde with a threshold speed of 75 kt, which was slightly above the target.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft held a good threshold height and began the flare, resulting in a touchdown point 272 m down the runway and a touchdown speed of 57 kt.
Touchdown occurred with an excellent vertical rate of minus 63 fpm and perfect runway alignment.
The rollout remained aligned with the centreline, and the total landing distance was 515 m, representing 21 % of the 2 490 m runway.
With a score of 99.9 % the landing was near perfect; reducing the threshold speed to the exact target value will eliminate the slight excess while preserving the current flare timing and alignment.
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