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Departure
Smooth and reduce pitch inputs during the climb so g force stays steady near 1.3 g.
What happened: During the second climb segment, g force varied through 1.3 g, outside the smooth target band.
Watch for: G meter in Climb 2, holding within the normal steady climb band.
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed back to 122 kt well before the gate.
What happened: Approach was fast through the stabilisation gate, and the threshold was crossed at 137 kt against the 122 kt target. Carrying that extra speed in usually carries the touchdown long, which it did here at 530 m against the 457 m target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 122 kt at the threshold
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 14 stages, 12 in the score
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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: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline 1.7° off, against a 1° limit and speed 31 kt FAST on the reference speed of 122 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,671 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 530 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. Take-off distance was 822 m (22 % of runway) and rotation occurred at 157 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 18 °C, wind 16 kt from 219°, with a crosswind component of 8 kt and a headwind component of 14 kt.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 12 seconds, averaging 3 253 fpm and reaching 200 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 972 ft asl to 1 810 ft asl in under a minute, covering less than 1 nm while remaining overhead Auckland. Level flight was maintained at 1 600 ft asl for 2 minutes, covering 5 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-west of the airport. Descent began from 1 550 ft asl to 660 ft asl in 6 minutes, covering 15 nm, starting about 1 mile south of the airport.
On final approach to runway 23L, descent from 875 ft agl to 73 ft agl was completed in 72 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, and wings level; they were not met for centreline and speed. Configuration changes were: landing gear down at 1 146 ft agl at 155 kt, and final flap position 4 at 948 ft agl at 145 kt.
Landing occurred on runway 23L, whose length is 3 671 m. The threshold speed was 137 kt, noted as well above target. The flare was described as great. Touchdown was 103 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 131 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 46 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 4.4 m from the centreline, but there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 836 m (23 % of runway) and runway rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was temperature 15 °C, wind 13 kt from 220°, with a crosswind component of 7 kt and a headwind component of 11 kt. After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 8 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 26 nm, lasted 18 minutes, and used 1 564 kg of fuel.
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