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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 70 kt with 8.3° 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 582 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 751 m of runway left; then climbing at 720 fpm on average to 582 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 2,086 m runway.
Rolled from 541 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 11 m at the widest, and lifted off 11 m left. Airborne 49 % 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Low from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 250 ft under).
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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 439 m left of the centreline at 1.6 nm, then inside the band from 1.2 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
8 kt across from the right, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 66 kt. Touched down with 7° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 300° at 9 kt · 2 kt head · 8 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 67 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 26 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 22 ft, 28 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 363 m in, 58 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 200 fpm at 22 ft to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.9° 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 2,990 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.7 m left of the centreline and drifted to 9 m right on 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 363 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 from Burgos Airport to León Airport was smooth and efficient, covering a total distance of 95 nm over a duration of 53 minutes.
The departure from Burgos Airport runway 22 involved a short taxi time of 3 minutes and a takeoff distance of 480 m, with a liftoff speed of 70 kn. The local weather at the time indicated a temperature of 5 °C with a 5 kn wind at 179 °, resulting in a 4 kn crosswind and 4 kn headwind during takeoff.
The enroute climb phase saw the aircraft ascending from 3,560 ft to 6,026 ft in 4 minutes, covering 8 nm. The level cruise phase started overhead Tardajos and lasted 22 minutes, covering 58 nm.
The descent phase started 3 miles northwest of Calzada del Coto, with the aircraft descending from 5,201 ft to 4,421 ft in 2 minutes, covering 6 nm. Another level cruise phase commenced 2 miles west of El Burgo Ranero and lasted 17 minutes, covering 19 nm.
The final approach to León Airport runway 23 was from the northeast at an altitude of 283 ft agl and a speed of 74 kn. The landing on the runway was smooth, with a touchdown speed of 66 kn and a VSI of -92 ft/m.
The total landing distance was 1,042 m, representing 35% of the runway length. The weather at León Airport indicated a temperature of 6 °C with a 9 kn wind at 300 °, resulting in a 9 kn crosswind and a 2 kn headwind during landing.
Overall, the flight in the Douglas DC-3 was successfully completed, consuming 221 kg of fuel. The aircraft taxied back to the parking area in 2 minutes after landing, covering less than 1 nm.
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