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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 155 kt with 10.5° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 166 kt target, at 170 kt on average.
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 781 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 520 m of runway left; gear up at 24 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,330 fpm on average to 781 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,433 m runway.
Rolled from 52 m in, drifted 2.7 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 6 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 65 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.2 nm, then not again: low from 0.2 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.2 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 40 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° 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. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 13 m off the centreline.
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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +6 kt and +14 kt on the approach speed of 138 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
Perfect landing flare
8 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 139 kt. Touched down with the nose 4° into wind, wings level.
Wind 289° at 19 kt · 16 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 124 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 32 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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.
Began the flare at 31 ft, 65 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 424 m in, 120 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 290 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at 8 ft, then back up to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° 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 2,349 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 15 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 3.8 m left by the end of 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 424 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport (KMSP), the CRJ900 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took approximately 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. With runway 30R cleared for departure, the aircraft accelerated down the 1,593-meter-long runway, utilizing 65% of its length to achieve liftoff at a speed of 155 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 21 °C, with a gentle wind blowing at 8 knots from a direction of 40°.
As the aircraft climbed away from KMSP, it began its enroute climb 1 mile north of the airport, ascending from an initial altitude of 1,726 feet above sea level to a cruising altitude of 31,993 feet, a vertical gain of 30,267 feet in just 11 minutes. The enroute climb covered a distance of 92 nautical miles, after which the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, lasting 7 minutes and covering an additional 162 nautical miles. The descent phase commenced 5 miles west of the Dalamar Farms Airstrip (4NA7) in Hannaford, North Dakota, where the aircraft descended from 32,000 feet to 2,950 feet in 15 minutes, covering 128 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 31 at Minot International Airport (KMOT) was initiated from the southeast, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 319.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,242 feet above ground level. The landing was executed on the 2,344-meter-long runway, with a threshold height of good and a threshold speed slightly above the target at 146 knots. The touchdown distance was 424 meters, and the touchdown speed was 138 knots, which was a little fast. However, the touchdown rate was smooth at -103 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 15.0 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 14.8 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 1,167 meters, covering 50% of the runway. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, a process that took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 389 nautical miles, with a flight time of 40 minutes and a fuel consumption of 2,234 kilograms.
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