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Improve the pattern downwind leg
The 45-degrees-behind-the-wing cue assumes you can turn your head and use peripheral vision. Downwind spacing cues like "put the wingtip halfway up the strut" assume a fixed, known eyepoint. Neither survives a monitor unmodified. If you fly on a fixed monitor, stop pretending and fly a numbers-based circuit.
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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 420 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft King Air 350 taxied to runway 05R at Auckland International Airport and commenced its departure roll. The aircraft used 811 m of runway, representing 25 % of the available length, and lifted off at 129 kt. Ambient conditions were 34 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 001°, giving a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
During the final approach descent the aircraft reduced altitude from 560 ft AGL to 44 ft AGL in 43 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate criteria.
The aircraft continued the final approach to runway 05R, now under local weather of 32 °C and a wind of 5 kt from 000°, providing a 5 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Touch-down occurred on runway 05R, whose length is 3 284 m. The threshold speed was slightly below the target at 93 kt, while the actual touchdown speed was 82 kt. The aircraft landed 419 m from the threshold, with a smooth vertical rate of minus 127 fpm and perfect runway alignment. The total landing distance measured 680 m, equivalent to 21 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment remained perfect.
The rollout phase proceeded without deviation, maintaining the precise runway centreline until the aircraft came to a stop.
In total the flight covered 12 nm, required 7 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 36 kg of fuel.
The Beechcraft King Air 350 conducted the final approach to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport, descending from 560 ft agl to 44 ft agl in 43 seconds and receiving a score on the stabilisation gates. Local weather was 32 °C with wind 5 kt from 0°, including a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a speed slightly below target at 93 kt and achieved a good threshold height as noted in the report.
Touchdown occurred 419 m down the runway at a speed of 82 kt, with a smooth vertical rate of minus 127 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 680 m, representing 21 % of the 3 284 m runway, and runway-rollout alignment was perfect.
With a landing score of 99.5 % the performance was excellent; fine-tuning the threshold speed to match the target value and confirming the descent profile remains consistent will further tighten an already strong technique.
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