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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 13 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 64 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 64 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, well above the normal profile. The touchdown point was also long at 775 m against a 457 m target, a pattern often seen after high threshold crossings.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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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 1.0° 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 3,284 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 775 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed NZAA Auckland International Airport on runway 05R, applying a departure roll of 969 m which represented 30 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 118 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 050°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 4 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced immediately after liftoff, beginning overhead the airport and gaining altitude from 856 ft asl to 1,586 ft asl. The climb produced an altitude increase of 730 ft in one minute while covering a ground distance of 3 nm.
Level cruise was established 2 mi southwest of NZAA and persisted for three minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 7 nm at a steady altitude.
Descent for the final approach began at 1,330 ft agl and proceeded to 94 ft agl over a period of 118 seconds. The aircraft met the stabilisation gate criteria during this phase.
The final approach to runway 05R was conducted under the same wind conditions as departure (4 kt from 050°, 1 kt cross-wind, 4 kt head-wind) and a temperature of 14 °C. The approach was aligned with the runway centreline and prepared the aircraft for touchdown.
Landing occurred on runway 05R, whose total length is 3,284 m. The threshold height of 64 ft agl was above the target, while the threshold speed of 116 kt was within expectations. Touchdown was recorded 337 m beyond the designated touchdown zone at a speed of 107 kt, with a smooth vertical rate of minus 127 fpm. The touchdown point was offset by 6.0 m from the centreline. The total landing roll measured 1,033 m, representing 31 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was judged very good.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 16 nm, required eight minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 200 kg of fuel.
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