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Keep the wings level on final
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.
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One stabilised approach gate: five 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,285 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 292 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Boeing 747-8 began with a 6-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at NZCH Christchurch Intl. The departure roll on runway 20 covered 3,372 ft, which was 31% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was 164 knots. The local weather at departure was 46 °F with a 1 knot headwind.
The enroute climb started over Christchurch (Canterbury, New Zealand), ascending from 1,196 ft to 37,819 ft, covering 91 nm in 15 minutes. The enroute level cruise then began 1 mile west of NZML Molesworth Airport (Marlborough, New Zealand) and lasted 25 minutes, covering 203 nm.
The descent phase commenced 14 miles northeast of Urenui (Taranaki, New Zealand), descending from 37,957 ft to 1,938 ft, over a distance of 113 nm in 21 minutes. The landing was on runway 23L at NZAA Auckland Intl, with a threshold height of 26 ft agl. The speed at threshold was 142 knots, and the touchdown occurred 959 ft from the threshold at a speed of 136 knots with a VSI of -240 ft/m. The total landing distance was 3,895 ft, which was 36% of the runway length. The local weather at arrival was 61 °F with a 4 knot wind coming from 319 °, resulting in a 3 knot crosswind and 1 knot headwind.
After landing, a 2-minute taxi was taken from the runway to the parking area covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 416 nm, taking 133 minutes, and consuming 20,799 lbs of fuel.
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