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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 15 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 134 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 145 kt against a target of 134 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 134 kt at the threshold.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 148 kt, and lifted off at 174 kt 5.6 s later, the nose coming up at 1.8° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 198 kt target, at 196 kt on average.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 930 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,892 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,730 fpm on average to 930 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,671 m runway.
Rolled from 69 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 15 m at the widest, and lifted off 15 m left. Airborne 35 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length.
The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 30 ft below the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 250 m right of the centreline, then inside it from 3.4 to 0.4 nm, then 12 m left of it from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777F departed from runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport. Take-off was achieved after a distance of 1,290 m, which was 35 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 148 kt. The local weather at departure was 19 °C with wind 27 kt from 220°, giving a cross-wind component of 14 kt and a head-wind component of 24 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 30 seconds, averaging 1,574 fpm and reaching 204 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then levelled between 1,000 ft asl and 1,500 ft asl for 4 minutes, covering 12 nm while positioned about 1 mile south-west of the airport.
Descent for the final approach began from 1,309 ft agl and continued to 54 ft agl in 111 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Gear was down at 1,325 ft agl with a speed of 179 kt; final flap position 6 was selected at 1,280 ft agl with a speed of 168 kt.
Landing was made on runway 23L, which is 3,671 m long. The threshold height of 56 ft agl was slightly above target and the threshold speed of 146 kt was slightly above target. The flare was described as great; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 316 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 140 kt, noted as a little fast, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 290 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,078 m, representing 29 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The local weather at landing was 17 °C with wind 21 kt from 230°, giving a cross-wind component of 7 kt and a head-wind component of 19 kt. After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 4 minutes, covering 1 nm.
The overall flight covered 20 nm, lasted 16 minutes, and consumed 44,662 kg of fuel.
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