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Slow down before tight turns
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: six checks at the point nearest 500 ft above the runway after the base turn. 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 3,284 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 478 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TBM 930 departed Auckland International Airport (NZAA) from runway 05R, using a take-off distance of 593 m which represented 18 % of the runway. Liftoff was achieved at 90 kt. Ambient conditions were 33 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 1°, giving a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
The aircraft entered a right-hand pattern from runway 05R, covering less than 1 nm in 16 seconds.
A right-hand pattern cross-wind leg followed, also less than 1 nm and completed in 14 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft flew 2 nm while turning to an angle of 107.3° relative to the runway heading.
The downwind leg extended 4 nm and was flown in 89 seconds.
The base-leg turn was executed over 4 nm with a turn angle of 27.5° to the runway.
The base leg itself was less than 1 nm and lasted 28 seconds.
The final turn covered less than 1 nm and was completed in 31 seconds.
On final approach to runway 05R the aircraft descended from 1,002 ft agl to 49 ft agl in 130 seconds and met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Touchdown occurred on runway 05R, whose length is 3,284 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 81 kt, touchdown distance was 478 m, touchdown speed was 70 kt and the vertical speed was -134 fpm. Alignment at touchdown was very good. Weather at landing was 32 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 1°, providing a 4 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect and the total landing distance measured 688 m, representing 21 % of the runway.
In total the flight covered 13 nm, took 7 minutes and consumed 26 kg of fuel.
The TBM 930 executed a stabilised approach to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport, with the stabilisation assessment recorded as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate. Gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and speed were all within limits, and the aircraft descended from 1,002 ft agl to 49 ft agl in 130 seconds, scoring on the stabilisation gates.
During the threshold and flare phase the threshold height was reported as good and the threshold speed measured 81 kt, also described as good. The flare produced a touchdown speed of 70 kt, a touchdown distance of 478 m, and a smooth touchdown rate of minus 134 fpm, with runway touchdown alignment judged very good.
Touchdown occurred at the indicated 478 m from the threshold, with the aircraft maintaining the 70 kt speed and the smooth rate of minus 134 fpm, and the alignment remained very good throughout the contact.
Rollout continued for a total landing distance of 688 m, representing 21 % of the 3,284 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment was perfect.
With a score of 99.4 % the landing was excellent; maintaining the current stabilised-approach technique while fine-tuning the descent timing could further reduce touchdown distance and preserve the generous runway margin.
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