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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 144 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 381 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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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.
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 557 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-300 taxied from the parking area to runway 08 at NCRG Rarotonga International Airport in 6 minutes, covering 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 08, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 160 kt and became airborne after a ground run of 784 m, representing 35 % of the runway length. Local weather was temperature 23 °C, wind 5 kt from 054°, with a 3 kt crosswind component and a 4 kt headwind.
The initial climb commenced overhead Avarua, climbing from 902 ft asl to 9 996 ft asl, an altitude gain of 9 094 ft in 3 minutes while covering 14 nm.
Level cruise began 5 miles south of Avarua and continued for 74 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 344 nm.
A subsequent climb started at latitude -24.9311052, longitude -164.5879142, climbing from 10 007 ft asl to 36 001 ft asl, an increase of 25 994 ft over 12 minutes and a distance of 83 nm.
The aircraft entered a second cruise segment from latitude -25.
The Boeing 777-300 executed a final approach to runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport from the east, tracking a heading of 251.0° at 4 nm and 1,285 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits, and the local weather was 7 °C with a 1 kt wind from 349°, 1 kt cross-wind and no head-wind.
At threshold the aircraft displayed a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 136 kt.
Touchdown occurred 143 m beyond the touchdown zone with a good touchdown speed of 131 kt; the touchdown rate was firm at minus 301 fpm and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.9 m from the centreline.
The total landing distance was 1,255 m, representing 34 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 14.0 m from the centreline.
To refine future performances, focus on tightening lateral alignment during touchdown and maintaining that alignment through rollout to reduce the 6.9 m and 14.0 m deviations observed.
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