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Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 141 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 152 kt against a target of 141 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 141 kt at 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 165 kt with 7.8° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 198 kt target, at 197 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 870 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,243 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,150 fpm on average to 870 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 808 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.5 m right. Airborne 29 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.8 to 0.5 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.5 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 140 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 749 m left of the centreline, then inside it from 3.2 to 0.5 nm, then 16 m left of it from 0.5 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +10 kt on the approach speed of 142 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 tracked the target profile closely. Crossing the threshold 11 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 614 m past the threshold. The flare cannot burn off excess energy - fix the approach speed and the float goes with it.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 141 kt. Touched down with the nose 7° left of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 271° at 10 kt · 9 kt head · 3 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 136 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 30 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 33 ft, 17 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 27 ft. Touched down 614 m in, 309 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 640 fpm at the flare to 230 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° 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 6.1 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6.5 m right 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 614 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777F departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. Takeoff used 1,084 m of runway, 30 % of the available length, and liftoff occurred at 166 kt. The local weather at departure was temperature 36 °C, wind 10 kt from 271°, with a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 9 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 14 seconds, averaging 2,938 fpm, and the aircraft reached 195 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 981 ft asl to 1,449 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 4 nm, remaining overhead Auckland. Level flight was maintained at 1,400 ft asl for 4 minutes, covering 12 nm, beginning about 3 nm south of the airport.
During final approach to runway 23L, descent from 1,204 ft agl to 62 ft agl was completed in 102 seconds. Stabilisation checks were performed at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. The checks that were met included gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and speed. The check that was not met was wings level (at one gate).
Landing was on runway 23L, whose length is 3,671 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 152 kt. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 217 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 140 kt, noted as a little fast, with a fair descent rate of minus 228 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned, 6.6 m off the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,107 m, 30 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The local weather at landing was temperature 33 °C, wind 10 kt from 271°, with a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 9 kt head-wind component. The total flight covered 22 nm in 7 minutes and consumed 1,576 kg of fuel.
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