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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to stop the drift as soon as it starts in the flare.
What happened: On the landing you drifted 14 m off the centreline, and that kind of lateral drift usually carries through to a touchdown point 14 m off centreline and into a rollout that is still skewed off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Heading indicator: track straight down the extended runway centreline through touchdown and rollout.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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: sink rate 1,426 fpm, more than the glideslope needed.
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 751 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo commenced its departure roll on runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport, using 966 m of runway (26 % of the available length) and achieving liftoff at 155 kt. Ambient conditions were 17 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 244°, providing a 7 kt headwind component and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
During the climb phase the aircraft rose from 971 ft asl to 1,547 ft asl, an altitude gain of 576 ft achieved in 1 minute while covering 2 nm over the Auckland airport vicinity.
Level cruise began 2 mi south of NZAA and persisted for 4 minutes, during which the airplane traversed 11 nm at a steady altitude.
The descent commenced from 1,494 ft agl and proceeded to 89 ft agl in 108 seconds, establishing the final approach configuration.
On final approach to runway 23L the crew met the stabilisation gates; weather at the time was 16 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 250°, delivering a 7 kt headwind and no cross-wind component.
Touchdown occurred on runway 23L, whose total length is 3,671 m; the threshold height of 68 ft agl and the threshold speed of 139 kt were both above target. The aircraft contacted the surface 327 m beyond the touchdown zone at 124 kt, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 297 fpm and a lateral deviation of 14.7 m from the centreline. The total landing roll measured 1,155 m (31 % of runway), and the rollout remained slightly misaligned by the same 14.7 m offset.
After landing, the aircraft rolled out and continued along the runway, maintaining the noted 14.7 m centreline deviation until exit.
The aircraft taxied to its parking position, a taxi-in that lasted 4 minutes and covered 2 nm.
In total, the flight covered 21 nm, took 12 (unspecified units) and consumed 579 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate, with a sink rate that was too high and the aircraft off the centreline. Descent was from 1,494 ft agl to 89 ft agl in 108 seconds and the stabilisation gates were scored accordingly.
At the threshold the aircraft was 68 ft agl, which was above the target height, and the threshold speed was well above target at 139 kt. The flare transitioned to touchdown with the aircraft crossing the runway threshold at a point 327 m beyond the designated touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed of 124 kt was noted as a little fast. The vertical rate at touchdown was fair at minus 297 fpm and the touchdown position was misaligned by 14.7 m from the centreline.
Touchdown occurred 327 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 124 kt, a vertical rate of minus 297 fpm and a centreline deviation of 14.7 m. The aircraft continued the roll with the same lateral offset.
Rollout covered a total distance of 1,155 m, representing 31 % of the 3,671 m runway, and the aircraft remained slightly misaligned by 14.7 m from the centreline throughout the rollout.
To improve future performance, focus on achieving a stabilised approach by managing sink rate and maintaining centreline alignment before the 1,000 ft gate, and target the prescribed threshold speed to reduce the excess speed observed at touchdown.
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