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Reduce power earlier on final to bleed back to 120 kt well before the gate.
What happened: Approach was fast through the stabilisation gate, and the threshold was crossed at 152 kt against the 120 kt target. Carrying that extra speed in usually carries the touchdown long, which it did here at 638 m against the 457 m target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 120 kt at the threshold
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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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: speed 30 kt FAST on the reference speed of 120 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 638 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. Take-off was performed with a distance of 806 m (22 % of the runway) and rotation at 153 kt. Local weather at departure was 18 °C, wind 16 kt from 230° (crosswind 6 kt, headwind 15 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 14 seconds, averaging 2,834 fpm and reaching 197 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 981 ft asl to 1,965 ft asl in under a minute, covering 1 nm while remaining overhead Auckland.
During cruise the flight covered 19 nm in 9 minutes, using 11,936 kg of fuel. Descent began at 1,985 ft asl and proceeded to 1,298 ft asl in 4 minutes over 12 nm, starting 1 mile south-west of NZAA with a brief level-off at 1,600 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 23L was made from 1,356 ft agl down to 62 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 153 kt, noted as too high. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 215 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 142 kt, also noted as too fast, with a vertical rate of minus 177 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 9.7 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,024 m (28 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.9 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 15 °C, wind 15 kt from 229° (crosswind 5 kt, headwind 14 kt).
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
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