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Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 4.9 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed back to 123 kt well before the gate.
What happened: Approach was fast through the stabilisation gate, and the threshold was crossed at 143 kt against the 123 kt target. Carrying that extra speed in usually carries the touchdown long, which it did here at 915 m against the 457 m target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 123 kt at the threshold
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: speed 30.5 kt FAST on the reference speed of 123 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 915 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. The take-off roll was 1,006 m, 27 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 152 kt. Local weather was 16 °C with wind 4 kt from 220°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 32 seconds, averaging 2,126 fpm and reaching 188 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then entered a left-hand circuit for runway 23L. The downwind leg was 9 nm and lasted 176 seconds at 1,490 ft agl; the base leg was less than 1 nm and lasted 16 seconds.
On final approach to runway 23L, descent was from 1,403 ft agl to 78 ft agl in 100 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate.
Landing was on runway 23L, runway length 3,671 m, with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was well above target at 143 kt. The flare was described as great; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 496 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 125 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of -176 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 4.4 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 15 °C with wind 6 kt from 240°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 6 kt headwind. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,273 m, 35 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good. Taxiing to parking from the runway took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 23 nm in 9 minutes and used 1,281 kg of fuel.
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