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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 602 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 22 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 11 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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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 500 ft gate: centreline 1.2° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,348 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 180 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, the Airbus A330-900 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the designated runway, a process that took approximately 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. With a takeoff distance of 1,996 meters, which equated to 56% of the available runway length, the aircraft lifted off the ground at a speed of 170 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 34 degrees Celsius, with a gentle wind of 1 knot from a direction of 45 degrees.
As the aircraft climbed away from Manila, it began its enroute climb, which started approximately 1 mile southwest of the airport. The climb phase saw the aircraft ascend from an initial altitude of 954 feet above sea level to a cruising altitude of 37,902 feet, an increase of 36,948 feet in just 27 minutes, covering a distance of 183 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise phase that followed lasted for 36 minutes, during which the aircraft covered an additional 287 nautical miles. The flight then entered a series of enroute descents and level cruises, with the final descent phase commencing 14 miles north of Taipei Songshan Airport. The aircraft touched down on runway 23L at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, with a touchdown distance of 177 meters and a speed of 138 knots.
The landing phase was notable for a slightly misaligned runway touchdown position, with the aircraft deviating from the centerline by 13.7 meters. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned, by 10.1 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing featured a temperature of 24 degrees Celsius, with a wind of 8 knots from a direction of 140 degrees. The total landing distance was 928 meters, which equated to 28% of the available runway length. The flight ultimately covered a total distance of 719 nautical miles, using 11,457 kilograms of fuel in the process, and took a total of 127 minutes to complete.
The Airbus A330-900 touched down on runway 23L at RCTP Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, marking a successful conclusion to the approach from the north east. The aircraft's descent was well-managed, with a good threshold height achieved. However, the threshold speed was slightly above the target, registering at 142 kt. Despite this, the touchdown distance was satisfactory at 177 m, indicating a controlled deceleration.
Upon touchdown, the aircraft's speed was a little fast at 138 kt, resulting in a fair touchdown rate of -209 fpm. The runway touchdown position was not perfectly aligned with the centreline, deviating by 13.7 m. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 24 °C and a gentle wind of 8 kt at 140 °, did not pose any significant challenges to the landing. The total landing distance of 928 m, accounting for 28% of the runway length, was within acceptable limits.
The rollout phase saw the aircraft maintain a slightly misaligned path, deviating by 10.1 m from the centreline. Despite this, the overall performance of the landing was satisfactory, earning a score of 94.5%. The crew's ability to manage the aircraft's descent and deceleration was commendable, and the landing was executed safely and efficiently.
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