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Improve the pattern downwind leg
The 45-degrees-behind-the-wing cue assumes you can turn your head and use peripheral vision. Downwind spacing cues like "put the wingtip halfway up the strut" assume a fixed, known eyepoint. Neither survives a monitor unmodified. If you fly on a fixed monitor, stop pretending and fly a numbers-based circuit.
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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. These checks are the approach's score.
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 335 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA62 taxied to runway 05R at Auckland International Airport and commenced its take-off roll, covering 596 m which represented 18 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 82 kt. Ambient conditions were 33 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 010°, giving a 1 kt head-wind component and a 3 kt cross-wind component.
After departure the aircraft entered a right-hand pattern from runway 05R, flying a distance of less than 1 nm in 46 seconds before establishing the downwind segment.
The subsequent right-hand crosswind leg from runway 05R was completed in less than 1 nm in 9 seconds, positioning the aircraft for the downwind turn.
During the downwind turn the aircraft covered 1 nm while turning to a 45° heading of 118.5°, aligning for the downwind leg.
The downwind leg itself extended 3 nm and was flown in 98 seconds, maintaining the prescribed pattern altitude.
A base-leg turn followed, with the aircraft traversing 3 nm and adjusting to a 45° heading of 28.1° as it prepared for the base leg.
The base leg was short, less than 1 nm, and was completed in 20 seconds before the final turn.
The final turn brought the aircraft onto the final approach course, covering 1 nm in 60 seconds and establishing the final approach path.
On final approach to runway 05R the aircraft descended from 915 ft AGL to 38 ft AGL in 93 seconds and met the stabilisation gates criteria.
Landing was executed on runway 05R, whose length is 3 284 m. The threshold speed was 80 kt, and touchdown occurred 332 m down the runway at 72 kt with a vertical speed of minus 155 fpm. Alignment at touchdown was perfect. Local weather at landing was 32 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 000°, providing a 2 kt head-wind and a 5 kt cross-wind. Total landing distance measured 538 m, representing 16 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Runway rollout alignment was very good, confirming a smooth deceleration to a stop.
In total the flight covered 9 nm, taking 6, and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
The aircraft performed a final approach to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport, descending from 915 ft agl to 38 ft agl in 93 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 80 kt.
Touchdown occurred 332 m down the runway with a speed of 72 kt, a vertical rate of minus 155 fpm, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 538 m, representing 16 % of the 3,284 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
With a score of 97.3 % the landing was strong; refining the touchdown point to be nearer the 300 m aim point will further optimise runway usage while maintaining the current speed control.
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