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Arrival
Add power on final to cross the threshold at 137 kt, correcting the speed before the flare begins.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 9 kt below the 137 kt target, and the flare that followed raised the nose only 5° with little of the sink taken out. Shallow, underpowered approaches like this usually carry through into a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 137 kt at the threshold
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 140 kt, 7 kt below the 147 kt target, and lifted off at 146 kt 1.2 s later, the nose coming up at 4.0° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 180 kt target, at 177 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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 887 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,507 m of runway left; gear up at 98 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,600 fpm on average to 887 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 50 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.6 m left, in 15 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 23 % 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.
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 more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.0 to 0.4 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.4 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 310 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 611 m left of the centreline, then inside it from 3.0 to 0.4 nm, then 17 m left of it from 0.4 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 35 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 −10 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 138 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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 5.0° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 177 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
14 kt across from the right, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 126 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 310° at 16 kt · 8 kt head · 14 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 44 ft, 3 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 177 m in, 128 m short of 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 1,030 fpm at the flare to 700 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.9° 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 3.9 m right of the centreline.
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.
The 177 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.91 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 787-10 taxied from its parking position 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 used 864 m, which is 24 % of the runway length, and lifted off at 146 kt. Local weather at the time was temperature 19 °C with wind 24 kt from 309°, a cross-wind component of 20 kt and a head-wind component of 12 kt.
Climb commenced overhead NZAA, the aircraft ascending from 981 ft asl to 1,523 ft asl - an increase of 542 ft in 1 minutes - while covering 5 nm.
Level cruise began 3 miles south of NZAA and persisted for 4 minutes, during which 11 nm were flown.
The final approach to runway 23L was executed from the east, on a heading of 255.0° at 3 nm and 871 ft agl.
Landing was made on runway 23L, whose length is 3,671 m. The threshold speed was slightly below target at 128 kt. Touchdown occurred 175 m down the runway at 126 kt, with a heavy rate of descent of minus 828 fpm and a lateral deviation of 4.7 m from the centreline. Weather at landing was temperature 18 °C, wind 14 kt from 309°, cross-wind 12 kt and head-wind 7 kt.
In total the flight covered 20 nm, lasted 8 minutes and consumed 29,373 kg of fuel.
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