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Apply small rudder corrections at touchdown, aiming at a point at the far end of the runway, to stay on the centreline.
What happened: Touchdown drifted 6.7 m off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 6.7 m.
Watch for: Runway centreline: aircraft tracking directly over it through touchdown and 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.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,610 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,610 m of the 3,641 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 440 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo taxied from the parking area to runway 23L at EDDL Düsseldorf Airport in 6 minutes, covering a distance of 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 23L, the aircraft accelerated for a takeoff distance of 1,190 m, representing 44 % of the runway, and lifted off at 146 kt; local weather reported a temperature of 22 °C, wind 2 kt at 180 °, with a 2 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
Climb commenced overhead EDDL Düsseldorf Airport, rising from 1,103 ft asl to 28,009 ft asl, an increase of 26,906 ft achieved in 12 minutes while covering 63 nm.
Cruise began 1 mile east of Mol (Flanders, Belgium) and continued for 18 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 129 nm.
Descent was initiated 22 miles south-east of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, England), descending from 27,981 ft asl to 1,377 ft asl, a loss of 26,604 ft in 18 minutes and covering 88 nm.
The final approach to runway 27L at EGLL London Heathrow Airport was flown from the east, on a heading of 270.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,300 ft agl; weather at the time was 19 °C, wind 7 kt at 172 °, with a 7 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind.
Landing on runway 27L, which is 3,641 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 140 kt; touchdown was recorded at 441 m down the runway, at a speed of 131 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 224 fpm and a slight lateral deviation of 6.6 m from the centreline; total landing distance was 1,533 m, representing 42 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was described as very good, and the aircraft came to a stop after the landing roll.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering a further 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 288nm, took 64 minutes, and consumed 2,878 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320neo entered the final approach to runway 27L at EGLL from the east on a heading of 270.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,300 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold speed of 140 kt and a good threshold height. The flare produced a touchdown distance of 441 m and a touchdown speed of 131 kt, both judged good. The touchdown rate was fair at minus 224 fpm and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.6 m from the centreline.
The landing used a total distance of 1,533 m, representing 42 % of the 3,641 m runway, and the rollout alignment was very good. Local weather was 19 °C with wind 7 kt from 172 °, giving a 7 kt crosswind component and a 1 kt tailwind component.
Coaching should focus on tightening the touchdown point to the centreline and reducing the vertical speed to move the rate from fair toward good, which will further improve the already high score of 97.2 %.
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