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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 920 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Add power on final to cross the threshold at 149 kt, correcting the speed before the flare begins.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 14 kt below the 149 kt target, and the flare that followed raised the nose only 1.4° with little of the sink taken out. Shallow, underpowered approaches like this usually carry through into a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 149 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.
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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 4.1° off, against a 1° limit and wings 22° of bank, against a 10° limit.
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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