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Departure
Smooth your pitch and roll inputs during the climb so the g force stays close to 0.9 g instead of spiking.
What happened: During the third climb segment the g force swung to 0.9 g, well outside the steady level flight band.
Watch for: Watch the g-meter and keep it settled near the normal one g climb band.
Arrival
Take the power back earlier on final, so the aircraft settles onto the path and the speed comes back to 141 kt together. Do not push down for the height: that only adds speed.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 59 ft agl, 9 ft agl above the 50 ft agl target, and at 156 kt, 15 kt over the 141 kt threshold speed. High and fast together is energy the runway has to absorb, and this touchdown came 339 m beyond the aim point.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 141 kt on short final, then 50 ft agl over the threshold
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 164 kt with 6.5° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 198 kt target, at 195 kt on average.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 928 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,263 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,070 fpm on average to 928 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,671 m runway.
Rolled from 942 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 7.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.6 m right, in 9 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 28 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then not again: fast from 0.7 nm and left of the centreline from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 ft below the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then 14 m left of it from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +19 kt).
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.4° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 796 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
14 kt across from the right, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 152 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 300° at 19 kt · 13 kt head · 14 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 142 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 25 s, an average deceleration of 0.23 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 59 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 796 m in, 491 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 230 fpm at the flare to 70 fpm at 10 ft, then back up to 300 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.8° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,671 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.1 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 5.2 m left at the widest.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 796 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 305 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777F departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. Take-off was achieved after a distance of 1,049 m, which is 29 % of the runway, and liftoff occurred at 164 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 21 °C, wind 13 kt from 300°, with a 10 kt crosswind component and a 9 kt headwind component.
During the initial climb the aircraft reached 1,000 ft agl in 16 seconds, averaging 2,605 fpm and attaining 195 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 1,025 ft asl to 1,511 ft asl over 1 minute while covering 4 nm, remaining overhead the Auckland area.
The flight then entered level flight at 1,500 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 16 nm and beginning 4 mi south-west of NZAA.
On final approach to runway 23L at NZAA, descent was from 1,316 ft agl to 87 ft agl in 95 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level.
Landing was made on runway 23L, whose length is 3,671 m. The threshold height at 59 ft agl was slightly above target and the threshold speed was well above target at 157 kt. The flare was described as very good; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 381 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 152 kt, which was a little fast, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 306 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned, 5.2 m off the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,222 m, representing 33 % of the runway, and the runway rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 5 minutes and covered 1 nm. The total flight distance was 26 nm, the flight time 13 minutes, and fuel consumption was 1,984 kg.
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