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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 18 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 138 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 152 kt against a target of 138 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 138 kt at the threshold.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 14 stages, 12 in the score
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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: sink rate 1,785 fpm, more than the glideslope needed and centreline 2.1° off, against a 1° limit.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline 2.6° 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 1,832 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 644 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. Takeoff used 1,286 m, 35 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 158 kt. Weather at departure was 21 °C with wind 19 kt from 220°, giving a 10 kt cross-wind component and a 16 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 19 seconds, averaging 2,291 fpm and reaching 208 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,072 ft asl to 35,493 ft asl in 17 minutes, covering 107 nm, beginning the climb about 1 mile south-west of NZAA.
Cruise was held at 36,000 ft asl for 55 minutes, covering 386 nm, starting roughly 26 miles north-west of NZNP New Plymouth Airport.
Descent began from 35,883 ft asl to 2,885 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 101 nm, with the descent start about 6 miles south-east of Haast.
Final approach to runway 23 at NZQN Queenstown International Airport descended from 1,759 ft agl to 107 ft agl in 98 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, glideslope, speed, and wings level; they were not met for sink rate (at one gate) and centreline. Configuration was landing gear down at 2,416 ft agl, 189 kt; final flap position 8 was selected at 1,698 ft agl, 171 kt.
Landing on runway 23 used a runway length of 1,832 m with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was well above target at 152 kt. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 243 m beyond the touchdown zone at 142 kt, a little fast, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 242 fpm and perfect runway alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,180 m, 64 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Local weather at landing was 19 °C with wind 22 kt from 190°, giving a 20 kt cross-wind component and an 8 kt head-wind component.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 4 minutes, covering 40 nm.
The total flight distance was 641 nm, the flight time 101 minutes, and fuel used was 95 kg.
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