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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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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 2,580 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 377 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Boeing 747-8 started at LFPG Charles-de-Gaulle, where the aircraft taxied from the parking to the runway in 7 minutes, covering 2 nm. The departure roll was from runway 26R, with a takeoff distance of 928 m (26% of the runway) and a liftoff speed of 150 kn. The local weather at the time of departure was 12 °C with a wind of 5 kn coming from 320 °, resulting in a crosswind of 4 kn and a headwind of 3 kn.
The enroute climb began over LFPG Charles-de-Gaulle, climbing from 1,384 ft asl to 32,033 ft asl, covering 66 nm in 11 minutes. The aircraft then entered a level cruise over Forceville-en-Vimeu for 6 minutes, covering 57 nm.
The descent phase of the flight started 10 miles southeast of Camber, descending from 32,032 ft asl to 31,354 ft asl in 2 minutes over a distance of 19 nm. The aircraft then entered another level cruise over Bodiam for 2 minutes, covering 19 nm, before beginning a descent from 1 mile east of Ide Hill. This descent took the aircraft from 31,364 ft asl to 1,959 ft asl, covering 107 nm in 20 minutes.
The landing was on runway 27 at EGNX East Midlands, with a runway length of 2,580 m. The aircraft approached the runway with a height of 45 ft agl and a speed of 137 kn. The touchdown occurred 380 m from the threshold at a speed of 132 kn, with a VSI of -290 ft/m. The total landing distance was 1,409 m, which was 55% of the runway length. The local weather at the time of landing was 12 °C with a wind of 6 kn coming from 350 °, resulting in a crosswind of 6 kn and a headwind of 1 kn.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking from the runway in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 277 nm, taking 86 minutes, and consuming 6,570 kg of fuel.
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