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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.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin raising the nose earlier, by 11 ft, so the flare has time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 6.2 ft, 5 ft below the normal band, and a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and start the flare in the normal band, around 11 ft.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 138 kt, 5 kt below the 143 kt target, and lifted off at 154 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 3.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 190 kt, 8 kt under its 198 kt target.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 1,191 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,588 m of runway left; gear up at 44 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 4,240 fpm on average to 1,191 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,671 m runway.
Rolled from 83 m in, drifted 8.6 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 22 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.2 nm, about 960 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the centreline.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 150 ft below the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 232 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.2 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +23 kt on the approach speed of 137 kt.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare wandered off the target profile. The flare began at 6 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 404 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 6° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 260° at 6 kt · 6 kt head · 0 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 54 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 6 ft. Touched down 404 m in, 99 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 430 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at 0 ft, then back up to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,671 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.7 m right of the centreline and drifted to 7.4 m left on the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended.
The 404 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.22 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777F departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. Takeoff was performed over a distance of 807 m, which is 22 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 138 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 16 °C, wind 7 kt from 260°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 6 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 14 seconds, averaging 2,860 fpm and reaching 188 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 998 ft asl to 1,457 ft asl in under a minute, covering 1 nm while remaining overhead Auckland.
Level flight was maintained at 1,500 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 14 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-west of NZAA.
During final approach to runway 23L, descent was from 1,345 ft agl to 83 ft agl in 102 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level.
Landing was on runway 23L, whose length is 3,671 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 145 kt. The flare was described as a fair landing flare that started late. Touchdown occurred 178 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 143 kt, noted as a little fast, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 376 fpm. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was temperature 13 °C, wind 7 kt from 260°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 7 kt head-wind. One bounce occurred on touchdown.
The total landing distance was 1,069 m, representing 29 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. The entire flight covered 21 nm in 8 minutes and used 0 kg of fuel.
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