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Improve the rollout
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 3,236 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 90 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in question was operated by an Airbus A321 aircraft. The aircraft began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 9 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 30 at Václav Havel Airport Prague, with the aircraft taking off after covering a distance of 789 meters, which was 24% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 156 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to its cruising altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of 16°C temperature and a wind speed of 3 knots at 190°. The crosswind was 3 knots, while the tailwind was 1 knot. The enroute climb started overhead Knezeves, Czech Republic, where the aircraft climbed from 2,216 feet above sea level to 31,405 feet, an increase of 29,188 feet in 17 minutes, covering a distance of 105 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise, starting 1 mile south of Neudrossenfeld, Germany, and lasted for 3 minutes, covering a distance of 22 nautical miles. The enroute climb started again overhead Wiesenthau, Germany, where the aircraft climbed from 31,414 feet to 32,872 feet, an increase of 1,457 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued to climb and descend at various points, including overhead Furth, Germany, where it entered a level cruise for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles. The enroute climb started 1 mile north-west of Z11O Feucht AAF Feucht, Germany, where the aircraft climbed from 32,545 feet to 33,657 feet, an increase of 1,112 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 17 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise, starting 1 mile north-west of Vorra, Germany, and lasted for 11 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. The enroute descent started 2 miles east of Neuhaus an der Pegnitz, Germany, where the aircraft descended from 34,985 feet to 31,488 feet, a decrease of 3,497 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued to climb and descend at various points, including overhead Pegnitz, Germany, where it entered a level cruise for 3 minutes, covering a distance of 22 nautical miles. The enroute descent started 3 miles south of Erlangen, Germany, where the aircraft descended from 31,421 feet to 29,973 feet, a decrease of 1,448 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise, starting overhead Ammerndorf, Germany, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nautical miles. The enroute climb started overhead ETEB Ansbach Katterbach Army Heliport Ansbach, Germany, where the aircraft climbed from 29,863 feet to 31,398 feet, an increase of 1,535 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise, starting overhead ETEB Ansbach Katterbach Army Heliport Ansbach, Germany, and lasted for 7 minutes, covering a distance of 40 nautical miles. The enroute descent started 1 mile north of Ruppertshofen, Germany, where the aircraft descended from 31,373 feet to 13,278 feet, a decrease of 18,095 feet in 8 minutes, covering a distance of 30 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a climb
The Airbus A321 aircraft successfully landed at Zürich Airport (LSZH) on runway 34, achieving an overall score of 86.0%. The final approach was initiated from the south east, heading 337.0° at a distance of 3 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,861 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft successfully touched down on the runway, with a touchdown distance of 85 meters, which is considered good.
However, there were some areas for improvement during the landing. The threshold speed was slightly above the target speed of 144 knots, indicating that the aircraft may have been slightly fast during the approach. Additionally, the touchdown speed of 144 knots was a little fast, which could have contributed to a fair touchdown rate of -289 feet per minute (fpm). The runway touchdown position was also slightly misaligned by 4.0 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were moderate, with a temperature of 13°C and a wind speed of 15 knots from 290°. The crosswind and headwind components were both 11 knots, which may have contributed to the slight misalignment of the runway touchdown position. The total landing distance was 745 meters, which is 23% of the runway length of 3,236 meters.
During the rollout, the aircraft's alignment was significantly misaligned by 33.0 meters from the centerline, indicating a need for improvement in the aircraft's braking and directional control. Overall, while the landing was successful, there are areas for improvement in terms of speed management, touchdown rate, and rollout alignment.
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