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Apply small rudder corrections at touchdown, aiming at a point at the far end of the runway, to stay on the centreline.
What happened: Touchdown drifted 13 m off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 13 m.
Watch for: Runway centreline: aircraft tracking directly over it through touchdown and rollout.
A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 14 stages, 12 in the score
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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: centreline 4.0° off, against a 1° limit.
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 549 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A380-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 23L, the aircraft accelerated to a rotation speed of 144 kt and lifted off after a takeoff distance of 1,372 m, representing 37 % of the runway length. Ambient conditions were 14 °C with a wind of 11 kt from 320°, comprising an 11 kt cross-wind component and a 4 kt head-wind component.
The en-route climb commenced 1 mile southwest of the airport, with the aircraft climbing from 976 ft asl to 1,491 ft asl, an increase of 515 ft achieved in 1 minute while covering 2 nm.
Level cruise began 2 miles southwest of the airport and continued for 3 minutes, during which the aircraft progressed 10 nm at a steady altitude.
Descent started 1 mile northeast of Takanini, descending from 1,711 ft asl to 884 ft asl, a loss of 828 ft over 2 minutes and a distance of 4 nm.
On final approach to runway 23L, the aircraft descended from 1,165 ft agl to 86 ft agl in 83 seconds and was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 23L, which is 3,671 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 149 kt, slightly above target. Touchdown was recorded 131 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 136 kt and a vertical rate of minus 288 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 13.2 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 14 °C with a wind of 12 kt from 320°, giving an 11 kt cross-wind and a 4 kt head-wind.
The total landing distance measured 1,163 m, equivalent to 32 % of the runway, and the rollout was laterally misaligned by 13.5 m from the centreline.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 21 nm, required 10 (units as provided) of time, and consumed 62,498 kg of fuel.
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