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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 8.5 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 24 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 9 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline 4.0° 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 3,671 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 371 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxied onto runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport and commenced the departure roll; the aircraft lifted off after a take-off run of 640 m, representing 17 % of the runway, rotating at 140 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 21 kt from 270°, including a 7 kt cross-wind component and a 20 kt head-wind.
During the climb the aircraft passed overhead NZAA, ascending from 977 ft asl to 1 585 ft asl, a gain of 608 ft achieved in 1 minute while covering 4 nm.
Level cruise began 3 nm south of NZAA and continued for 3 minutes, during which the airplane travelled 8 nm at a steady altitude.
The descent commenced 1 nm southeast of Manukau City, descending from 1 389 ft asl to 472 ft asl, a loss of 917 ft in 2 minutes while traversing 3 nm.
On final approach to runway 23L the aircraft reduced altitude from 1 010 ft agl to 51 ft agl in 99 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gates; weather at the time was 15 °C with a wind of 16 kt from 270°, a 5 kt cross-wind and a 15 kt head-wind.
Touchdown occurred on runway 23L, whose length is 3 671 m; the threshold speed was 119 kt, the touchdown distance measured 371 m and the touchdown speed was 114 kt. The aircraft settled at a rate of minus 238 fpm, with the touchdown point offset 7.0 m from the centreline. The total landing distance recorded was 685 m, equivalent to 19 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was later noted as 9.0 m off centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that lasted 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 20 nm, required 9 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 364 kg of fuel.
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