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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 10 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Apply small rudder corrections at touchdown, aiming at a point at the far end of the runway, to stay on the centreline.
What happened: Touchdown drifted 8.7 m off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 12 m.
Watch for: Runway centreline: aircraft tracking directly over it through touchdown and rollout.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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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: centreline 1.0° 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.
Touched down 598 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, employing a take-off roll of 2,797 m which represented 76 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 179 kt while the ambient temperature was 14 °C, the wind was 9 kt from 224°, with a 4 kt cross-wind component and an 8 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced approximately one mile south-west of the airport, where the aircraft accelerated from 1,006 ft asl to 1,488 ft asl, gaining 482 ft in one minute while covering three nautical miles.
Cruise began four miles south-west of NZAA and was maintained for five minutes, during which the flight covered fifteen nautical miles at level altitude.
Descent was initiated from 1,392 ft agl and proceeded to 71 ft agl over a period of 103 seconds, reducing altitude in preparation for the final approach.
During the final approach to runway 23L, the aircraft satisfied the stabilisation gates, confirming compliance with the required approach parameters.
Landing was executed on runway 23L, whose total length is 3,671 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 143 kt, and touchdown occurred 181 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 134 kt. The aircraft touched down with a vertical speed of minus 56 fpm, and the touchdown point was laterally offset by 8.1 m from the centreline. The total landing distance measured 1,135 m, representing 31 % of the runway length.
Rollout continued with a slight lateral deviation of 12.0 m from the centreline as the aircraft decelerated and exited the runway.
Taxi-in to the parking area from the runway required less than one minute and covered less than one nautical mile.
In total, the flight covered 25nm, took eight minutes, and consumed 414 kg of fuel.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 approached runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport in a stabilised configuration at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and speed all within limits. The final approach descended from 1,392 ft agl to 71 ft agl in 103 seconds under a temperature of 14 °C, wind 9 kt from 224°, with a 4 kt cross-wind component and an 8 kt head-wind.
Threshold height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 143 kt. The aircraft continued the flare and prepared for touchdown with the indicated parameters.
Touchdown occurred 181 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 134 kt, which was good, and the vertical rate was excellent at minus 56 fpm. The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline and the total landing distance was 1,135 m, representing 31 % of the 3,671 m runway.
During rollout the aircraft remained slightly misaligned, deviating 12.0 m from the centreline before exiting the runway.
Refine centreline tracking to reduce the 8.1 m touchdown offset and the 12.0 m rollout deviation, which will further improve alignment without affecting the overall high score of 94.8 %.
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