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Not the biggest loss in points — the one thing on this flight a check pilot would raise first, and the guide passage for it.
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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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.
Side view — the last 4,371 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 4,371 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,653 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
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