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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 45 kt with 10.2° 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 1,083 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 249 m of runway left; then climbing at 750 fpm on average to 1,083 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 1,173 m runway.
Rolled from 331 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.8 m left. Airborne 55 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 0.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 170 ft above 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 354 m right of the centreline at 0.9 nm, then inside the band 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −14 kt and +16 kt on the approach speed of 60 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
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 62 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 255° at 14 kt · 11 kt tail · 6 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.
Side view — the last 590 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 36 ft, 14 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 196 m in, 109 m short of 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 590 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 570 fpm at 34 ft to 280 fpm at 13 ft, then back up to 550 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.8° 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 full 590 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.7 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.6 m right at the widest.
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 196 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.63 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took approximately 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cessna 182T Skylane, then departed from runway 02 at 2S8 Wilbur, a small airport in Washington, United States. The takeoff distance was 323 meters, which accounted for 28% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 46 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it encountered local weather conditions of 21°C temperature and winds of 11 knots at 239°. The crosswind component was 5 knots, while the tailwind component was 10 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile north of Wilbur and continued for 6 minutes, during which the aircraft ascended from 3,263 feet above sea level to 8,566 feet, an increase of 5,303 feet. This climb covered a distance of 9 nautical miles.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 5 miles southeast of Almira, Washington. This cruise phase lasted for 90 minutes and covered a distance of 195 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent from 9,013 feet above sea level to 8,288 feet, a decrease of 726 feet, in just 2 minutes, covering 3 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 8 miles east of 2U5 Shearer US Forest Service Airport Kooskia, Idaho. This cruise phase lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. However, the aircraft soon began its descent from 8,287 feet above sea level to 7,714 feet, a decrease of 573 feet, in 2 minutes, covering 3 nautical miles.
The aircraft then climbed from 7,732 feet above sea level to 8,531 feet, an increase of 799 feet, in 2 minutes, covering 3 nautical miles. This climb started 12 miles west of 4U7 West Fork Lodge Airport Conner, Montana. The aircraft then began its descent from 8,541 feet above sea level to 4,422 feet, a decrease of 4,119 feet, in 6 minutes, covering 10 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 02 at 4U7 West Fork Lodge Airport was made from the southwest, with a heading of 41.0° at 0 nautical miles and 163 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 02 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 194 meters. However, the touchdown speed of 62 knots was slightly above the target speed, and the touchdown rate was very hard at -555 feet per minute.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 20°C temperature and winds of 14 knots at 255°. The crosswind component was 8 knots, while the tailwind component was 11 knots. The total landing distance was 659 meters, which was 112% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The total flight distance was 231 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 116 minutes. The aircraft used 80 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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