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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 68 kt with −0.9° 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 461 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 208 m of runway left; then climbing at 470 fpm on average to 461 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 845 m runway.
Rolled from 139 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.2 m left. Airborne 26 % 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 1.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 74 m left of the centreline at 1.0 nm, then inside the band from 0.6 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 from 1.0 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +31 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
Excellent landing flare
9 kt across from the left, which takes about 8° of crab to hold the centreline at 62 kt. Touched down with the nose 9° into wind, wings level.
Wind 253° at 9 kt · 3 kt tail · 9 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 65 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 19 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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 1,230 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 414 m in, 109 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 1,230 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 100 fpm at 26 ft to 40 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° 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 1,230 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 11 m left 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 414 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
A DR400 airplane departed from runway 25 at Hoherodskopf Airfield (EDUR). It took off after a roll distance of 125 meters, which accounted for 15% of the runway's length. The liftoff speed was 68 knots. At the time, the local weather conditions included a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 15 knots at 236 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 5 knots and a headwind of 14 knots.
The aircraft's enroute climb began approximately 1 mile west of the EDX1 reference point, near Hoherodskopf-Schotten. It climbed from an altitude of 2,660 feet to 2,849 feet over a distance of less than 1 nautical mile, with an increase of 189 feet in just 1 minute.
The first enroute level cruise phase started 1 mile east of Schotten and lasted for 3 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. Subsequent descent phase began 2 miles south of Schotten, where the aircraft descended from 3,325 feet to 2,845 feet over 2 nautical miles and a duration of 2 minutes.
A second level cruise phase began 2 miles northeast of Nidda, lasting 6 minutes and covering a distance of 9 nautical miles. Another descent phase started 1 mile north of Altenstadt, where the aircraft descended from 1,553 feet to 766 feet over 2 nautical miles and a duration of 2 minutes.
As the aircraft approached the Reichelsheim Airfield (EDFB), it made its final approach to runway 36 from the south, flying at a heading of 359 degrees and 1 nautical mile from the runway, at a height of 360 feet above ground level (agl). It landed on the runway and touched down at 76 knots, which was excessively high.
The total landing distance was 826 meters, accounting for 67% of the runway's length. Although the touchdown speed of 62 knots was high, the touchdown rate of -45 feet per minute (fpm) was perfect, and the runway touchdown alignment was accurate. However, during the rollout phase, the airplane veered off the centerline and landed 18.4 meters off the runway's centerline. The total flight distance was 19 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 14 minutes and a fuel consumption of 4 kilograms.
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