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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 8.4 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the attitude instead of letting the nose drop.
What happened: Sink came back after the flare had arrested it, and that pattern usually carries the touchdown long - here it landed at 860 m against the 457 m aim point.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, shallow rate through the flare with no renewed sink before touchdown
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: wings 11° of bank, against a 10° limit.
At the 500 ft gate: speed 21.0 kt FAST on the reference speed of 113 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 860 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Pilatus PC-24 taxied to runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport and took off, using 645 m of runway (18 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 112 kt. At the time, the temperature was 18 °C with wind 17 kt from 230°, giving a 6 kt cross-wind component and a 16 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 20 seconds, averaging 2,385 fpm and reaching 168 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,080 ft asl to 1,401 ft asl in under a minute, covering less than 1 nm while remaining overhead Auckland. Level flight was maintained at 1,400 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 13 nm.
During final approach to runway 23L, descent from 1,043 ft agl to 76 ft agl took 125 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope and centreline; they were not met for speed (at one gate) and wings level (at one gate).
Landing was on runway 23L, whose length is 3,671 m. The threshold height at 57 ft agl and the threshold speed of 122 kt were both slightly above target. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 427 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 105 kt and a rate of -58 fpm, with perfect runway-touchdown alignment and no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,314 m (36 % of the runway) and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was temperature 15 °C with wind 17 kt from 230°, giving a 6 kt cross-wind component and a 16 kt head-wind component. The entire flight covered 19 nm in 9 minutes and consumed 107 kg of fuel.
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