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Improve the 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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Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks at 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 1,566 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,566 m of the 3,284 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 158 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 747-400 LCF Dreamlifter taxied to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport and commenced the departure roll, using a takeoff distance of 1,002 m (31 % of the runway). Liftoff was achieved at 161 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 34 °C, wind 3 kt from 0°, with a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
During the en-route climb the aircraft departed the vicinity of NZAA, climbing from 934 ft asl to 1,618 ft asl - an increase of 683 ft - in 1 minute while covering 3 nm.
Level cruise began approximately 1 mile south of Wiri and was maintained for 4 minutes, during which 12 nm were flown.
The first final-approach segment to runway 05R was flown from the south-west on a heading of 68.0° at 2 nm and 907 ft agl; the descent proceeded from 1,136 ft agl to -19 ft agl in 66 seconds and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
A go-around was executed on runway 05R at 0 ft agl, after which the aircraft re-entered the approach circuit.
On the subsequent final-approach the aircraft descended from 903 ft agl to -35 ft agl in 86 seconds, again achieving a score on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 05R, which is 3,284 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 135 kt (well above target). Touchdown was recorded 161 m down the runway at 132 kt, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 392 fpm and a lateral deviation of 8.7 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was a temperature of 32 °C, wind 5 kt from 0°, a 5 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind. The total landing distance measured 1,487 m (45 % of the runway).
Runway rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 9.6 m.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to parking in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 44 nm, took 13 (units as provided), and consumed 44,745 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 747-400 LCF Dreamlifter, scored 61.7%, entered the final approach to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport from the south-west on a heading of 68.0° at 2 nm and 907 ft agl. The approach was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate, being off the glideslope and more than 20 kt above VREF.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft descended from 1,136 ft agl to -19 ft agl in 66 seconds and from 903 ft agl to -35 ft agl in 86 seconds, with scoring based on the stabilisation gates.
Touchdown occurred on runway 05R, whose length is 3,284 m and which had a good threshold height. The threshold speed was well above target at 135 kt. Touchdown distance was good at 161 m, but touchdown speed was excessively fast at 132 kt and the touchdown rate was firm at minus 392 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 8.7 m from the centreline.
Rollout used a total landing distance of 1,487 m, representing 45 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.6 m from the centreline.
Reduce the approach and touchdown speeds toward the target values to lessen the firm touchdown and improve alignment accuracy, aiming to keep the aircraft within a few metres of the centreline at touchdown and rollout. Maintaining a stabilised approach within the gates will help achieve these refinements.
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