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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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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 2,692 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 345 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Boeing 747-8 began at EHAM Schiphol, where the taxiing from the parking to the runway took 5 minutes to cover 1 nm. The departure roll was from runway 18L, with a takeoff distance of 854 m, which was 30% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 146 kn. The local weather at the time of departure was 12°C with a wind speed of 1 kn at 139°, resulting in 0 kn crosswind and headwind.
The enroute climb started 1 mile northeast of Aalsmeerderbrug in the Netherlands, climbing from 1,008 ft asl to 26,192 ft asl, covering 46 nm in 9 minutes. The enroute level cruise began 1 mile southeast of Rucphen, lasting 15 minutes and covering 106 nm. The enroute descent commenced 3 miles southeast of Plomion in France, descending from 26,155 ft asl to 2,159 ft asl in 16 minutes, covering 70 nm.
The landing took place on runway 27R at LFPG Charles-de-Gaulle, with a runway length of 2,692 m. The height at the threshold was 42 ft agl, with a speed of 134 kn. The touchdown occurred 344 m from the threshold, at a speed of 129 kn with a VSI of -309 ft/m. The local weather at the destination was 14°C with a wind speed of 7 kn at 330°, resulting in a crosswind of 7 kn and headwind of 3 kn. The total landing distance was 1,164 m, which was 43% of the runway length.
After landing, taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 9 minutes to cover 2 nm. The total flight distance was 232 nm, with a total flight time of 178 minutes. The flight consumed 6,351 kg of fuel.
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