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A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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 2,872 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 267 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 started with a taxi from the parking area to the runway, which took 8 minutes and covered 2 nm. The departure roll was from runway 07 at EPKK Balice, with a takeoff distance of 510 m (22% of the runway). The liftoff speed was 80 kn. The local weather at the time of departure was a temperature of 16°C, with a wind speed of 5 kn at 80° resulting in a headwind of 5 kn.
After departure, the enroute climb began overhead Szczyglice. The climb took the aircraft from 1,632 ft asl to 4,432 ft asl, covering a distance of 13 nm in 6 minutes. The descent phase of the flight started overhead Sieniczno, with the aircraft descending from 4,369 ft asl to 3,176 ft asl, a decrease of 1,193 ft over 9 nm in 3 minutes.
The landing was on runway 26 at EPKT Pyrzowice, which has a runway length of 2,872 m. The height at the threshold was 24 ft agl, and the speed at the threshold was 76 kn. The touchdown occurred 264 m from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 69 kn and a VSI of -131 ft/m. The local weather at the time of landing was a temperature of 18°C, with a wind speed of 10 kn at 170° resulting in a 9 kn crosswind and 2 kn tailwind. The total landing distance was 1,254 m, which was 44% of the runway length.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area, taking 4 minutes to cover less than 1 nm. The total flight distance for the journey was 44 nm, which took 41 minutes to complete and consumed 83 kg of fuel.
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