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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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 88 kt with 3.2° of pitch.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 971 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,894 m of runway left; then climbing at 840 fpm on average to 971 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,561 m runway.
Rolled from 119 m in, drifted 3.8 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 11 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 16 % 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: seven 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.
At the 500 ft gate: no landing flap set and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: left of the centreline from 1.8 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 260 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. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
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 430 m right of the centreline at 2.3 nm, then inside it from 2.1 to 1.8 nm, then 95 m left of it from 1.8 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +5 kt and +14 kt on the approach speed of 84 kt.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
11 kt across from the right, which takes about 9° of crab to hold the centreline at 72 kt. Touched down with 9° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 090° at 16 kt · 11 kt head · 11 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 61 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 8 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 52 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 368 m in, 64 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 470 fpm at 53 ft to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.6° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,959 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 18 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 3.1 m left by the end of the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 368 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport took less than a minute, covering a distance of less than a nautical mile. The Bonanza G36 then began its departure roll on runway 04L, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 89 knots. The takeoff distance of 426 meters accounted for 17% of the runway length. Local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 17°C and a wind speed of 16 knots from a direction of 90°, resulting in a crosswind and headwind of 11 knots each.
As the aircraft climbed out of Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport, it transitioned into an enroute climb phase, reaching an altitude of 1,400 feet above sea level in less than a minute. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, maintaining an altitude of 1,400 feet for 2 minutes while covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The Bonanza G36 continued to climb, reaching an altitude of 2,530 feet above sea level in 2 minutes while covering 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, lasting 2 minutes and covering 4 nautical miles. As the aircraft began its descent, it descended from 2,067 feet above sea level to 814 feet above sea level in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The Bonanza G36 then commenced its final approach to runway 04R at Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport, touching down at a speed of 72 knots and a distance of 366 meters. The touchdown rate was good at -159 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 18.1 meters from the centreline. The total landing distance was 561 meters, accounting for 19% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 17.8 meters from the centreline. The total flight distance was 21 nautical miles, taking 10 minutes to complete, and the aircraft used 6 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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