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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 58 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 71 kt, 13 kt above the 58 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 58 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
Each lap slightly wider and higher than the last, because you're unconsciously using the previous lap as your reference instead of the runway and the numbers. Invisible lap to lap, unmistakable across ten. This is the failure that only measurement catches, because your memory of lap three is gone by lap eight.
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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.
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.
The 331 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 172 departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. Take-off distance was 293 m (8 % of runway) and rotation occurred at 51 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 16 °C, wind 18 kt from 230°, with a 6 kt crosswind and a 17 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl lasted 6 seconds, averaging 600 fpm and reaching 68 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then continued the climb and entered cruise before beginning the circuit.
The left-hand circuit for runway 23L lasted 4 minutes. The downwind leg was 2 nm and was flown in 71 seconds at 1,080 ft agl; the base leg was less than 1 nm and was completed in 8 seconds.
During final approach to runway 23L the aircraft descended from 948 ft agl to 57 ft agl in 141 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level.
Landing was made on runway 23L, whose length is 3,671 m and has a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly above target at 71 kt. The flare was described as great, with the pitch being pumped up and down. Touchdown occurred 331 m from the threshold at 52 kt and -155 fpm, with very good runway-touchdown alignment and no bounce. Total landing distance was 386 m (11 % of runway) and runway rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 8 nm, lasted 9 minutes and used 4 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was temperature 16 °C, wind 15 kt from 230°, with a 5 kt crosswind and a 14 kt headwind.
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