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Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 457 m instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 166 m past the target, landing at 623 m against the 457 m aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
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.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: speed 26.8 kt FAST on the reference speed of 123 kt.
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 623 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. Takeoff used 896 m, 24 % of the runway, with rotation at 160 kt. Local weather was 16 °C, wind 4 kt from 219°, crosswind 2 kt, headwind 3 kt.
Initial climb reached 400 ft agl in 32 seconds, averaging 2,059 fpm and attaining 202 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then entered a left-hand circuit for runway 23L. The downwind leg was 8 nm and lasted 170 seconds at 1,490 ft agl; the base leg was less than 1 nm and took 18 seconds.
On final approach to runway 23L, descent was from 1,418 ft agl to 78 ft agl in 102 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate.
Landing was on runway 23L, runway length 3,671 m, with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 130 kt. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 207 m beyond the touchdown zone at 121 kt, a little fast, with a smooth rate of -121 fpm. The touchdown point was 6.2 m off the centreline. Local weather at landing was 17 °C, wind 2 kt from 220°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 2 kt. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,025 m, 28 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Taxiing from the runway to parking took 4 minutes and covered 1 nm. The whole flight covered 24 nm in 12 minutes and used 1,292 kg of fuel.
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