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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 5.2 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Hold a little more back pressure through the last of the flare to arrest the sink before 319 fpm develops.
What happened: Touchdown sink rate was 319 fpm, a firm arrival with no other fault on this landing to account for it.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: minimal sink at touchdown
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline 1.7° off, against a 1° 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 3,284 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 425 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A380-800 departed from runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport, accelerating through a takeoff roll of 1,878 m which represented 57 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 160 kt. Ambient conditions were 19 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 110°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced directly overhead the departure airport, with the aircraft ascending from 971 ft asl to 1,529 ft asl - a gain of 559 ft - in one minute while covering three nautical miles.
Cruise began two miles southeast of NZAA and was maintained for four minutes, during which the flight covered eleven nautical miles at level flight.
During the final approach to runway 05R, the descent proceeded from 1,350 ft agl to 82 ft agl in 96 seconds, and the aircraft met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Touchdown occurred on runway 05R, whose total length is 3,284 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 152 kt, above the target. The aircraft landed 425 m down the runway at a speed of 145 kt, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 319 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 7.7 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 1,029 m, equivalent to 31 % of the runway.
Rollout continued with a slight lateral deviation of 7.7 m from the centreline, as noted in the runway-rollout alignment observation.
In total, the flight covered 21 nm, required seven minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 1,894 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320neo completed the final approach to runway 02 at LPPT Humberto Delgado Airport from the south, tracking a heading of 23.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,281 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits, and the local weather was 23 °C with wind 5 kt at 310 °, including a 5 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
During the threshold and flare phase the threshold height was good and the threshold speed was good at 138 kt. The aircraft maintained the appropriate configuration and height for a smooth flare.
Touchdown occurred with a distance of 251 m, a speed of 135 kt that was good, and a rate of descent that was good at minus 186 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was very good.
Rollout used a total landing distance of 970 m, representing 26 % of the 3,710 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was perfect.
With a final score of 99.6 % the landing was excellent; minor refinements should focus on preserving the consistent touchdown point near 250 m and maintaining the touchdown speed around 135 kt to keep performance at this high level.
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