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Improve the pattern downwind leg
The 45-degrees-behind-the-wing cue assumes you can turn your head and use peripheral vision. Downwind spacing cues like "put the wingtip halfway up the strut" assume a fixed, known eyepoint. Neither survives a monitor unmodified. If you fly on a fixed monitor, stop pretending and fly a numbers-based circuit.
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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: six checks at the point nearest 500 ft above the runway after the base turn. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,284 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 280 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA62 taxied to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport and commenced the take-off roll, covering a takeoff distance of 1,044 m (32 % of the runway) and lifting off at 80 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 32 °C with wind 5 kt from 359°, providing a 2 kt head-wind component and a 5 kt cross-wind.
The aircraft entered a right-hand pattern from runway 05R, flying a distance of less than 1 nm in 14 seconds.
Continuing the right-hand pattern, the crosswind leg was completed in less than 1 nm in 9 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft described a 2 nm arc with a 45° angle to the runway measured at 121.8°.
The downwind leg itself extended 2 nm and was flown in 65 seconds.
The base-leg turn covered 3 nm with a 45° angle to the runway of 38.8°.
The base leg was 1 nm long and was completed in 42 seconds.
A final turn of 1 nm was flown in 60 seconds before aligning for approach.
On final approach to runway 05R the aircraft descended from 873 ft AGL to 36 ft AGL over 102 seconds and was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing was achieved on runway 05R (length 3,284 m) with a threshold speed of 83 kt. Touchdown occurred 280 m down the runway at 76 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 242 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment; the local weather remained temperature 32 °C, wind 5 kt from 359°, cross-wind 5 kt and head-wind 2 kt.
The rollout distance measured 509 m, representing 15 % of the runway, and the aircraft maintained perfect alignment during the roll.
The aircraft taxied to parking in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 12 nm, took 8 (units as given) and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
The Diamond DA62 began its final approach to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport, descending from 873 ft AGL to 36 ft AGL in 102 seconds while the local temperature was 32 °C, wind 5 kt from 359°, with a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component; the approach was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a good threshold speed of 83 kt, establishing the conditions for the flare.
Touchdown occurred 280 m down the runway at a speed of 76 kt, noted as a little fast, with a fair vertical rate of minus 242 fpm and a very good runway touchdown alignment.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 509 m, representing 15 % of the 3,284 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment was perfect.
To refine the already strong performance reflected by the 95.6 % score, a slight reduction in touchdown speed toward the target VREF would help lower the vertical rate and further optimise the landing distance.
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