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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 8.7 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 15 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 15 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,347 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 696 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A330-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 25L at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in a period of 10 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
Takeoff roll on runway 25L was executed with a ground run of 1,633 m, representing 43 % of the runway length; rotation was achieved at 146 kt. Local conditions reported a temperature of 29 °C, wind 2 kt from 090°, a 1 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt tailwind component.
The first climb began overhead Ho Chi Minh City, climbing from 1,101 ft asl to 11,001 ft asl, an altitude gain of 9,900 ft in 7 minutes while covering 30 nm.
A level cruise segment commenced 10 nm south of Can Giuoc, lasting 5 minutes and extending over 29 nm.
The second climb started 4 nm north of Ho Chi Minh City, ascending from 11,002 ft asl to 37,005 ft asl, a gain of 26,003 ft in 23 minutes and traversing 166 nm.
Subsequent cruise began 25 nm north-east of Buon Ma Thuot Airport, persisting for 130 minutes and covering 1,032 nm.
Descent commenced 18 nm north-east of Penghu Magong Airport, descending from 36,747 ft asl to 4,143 ft asl, a loss of 32,604 ft in 13 minutes while traveling 84 nm.
A brief cruise followed 8 nm west of Hsinchu Air Base, lasting 5 minutes and covering 16 nm.
The next descent segment started 9 nm north-east of Hsinchu, dropping from 3,950 ft asl to 1,376 ft asl, a decrease of 2,574 ft in 3 minutes over 8 nm.
Final approach to runway 05R at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport involved a descent from 1,331 ft agl to 109 ft agl in 104 seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 05R was performed on a runway 3,347 m long; the threshold height at 68 ft agl was above target, while the threshold speed of 138 kt was within expectations. Touchdown occurred 278 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 138 kt, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 318 fpm and a lateral deviation of 14.6 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 26 °C, wind 5 kt from 050°, with no crosswind and a 5 kt headwind component.
The rollout distance measured 1,437 m, equivalent to 43 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s alignment during rollout was offset by 14.8 m from the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 9 minutes, covering an additional 2 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,376nm, required 203 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 18,351 kg of fuel.
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