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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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Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,585 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 312 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 began with a 5-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at LFMP Perpignan-Rivesaltes (Llabanère) Airport. The departure roll on runway 33 covered a distance of 626 meters, which accounted for 27% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 74 knots, with the local weather showing a temperature of 15°C and wind at 8 knots from 220°, resulting in a crosswind of 7 knots and a tailwind of 2 knots.
The enroute climb commenced overhead Peyrestortes (Occitanie, France), during which the aircraft climbed from 870 feet above sea level to 5,037 feet above sea level, covering a vertical distance of 4,167 feet in 6 minutes and a horizontal distance of 15 nautical miles. The climb was followed by a level cruise that started 4 miles east of Leucate (Occitanie, France) and lasted 18 minutes, covering a distance of 49 nautical miles.
Subsequently, the enroute descent began 7 miles southeast of Palavas-les-Flots (Occitanie, France), with the aircraft descending from 4,968 feet above sea level to 1,805 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,163 feet in 3 minutes and covering 7 nautical miles. The flight culminated in a landing on runway 30R at LFMT Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport, with a runway length of 2,585 meters. The aircraft was at a height of 22 feet above ground level at the threshold, with a speed of 69 knots. The touchdown occurred 309 meters from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 61 knots and a vertical speed indicator reading of -37 feet per minute.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing indicated a temperature of 15°C and a wind speed of 17 knots from 249°, resulting in a crosswind of 14 knots and a headwind of 10 knots. The total landing distance covered was 857 meters, representing 33% of the runway length. Following the landing, a 4-minute taxi from the runway to the parking area concluded the flight, covering less than 1 nautical mile.
Overall, the flight in the Douglas DC-3 spanned a total distance of 78 nautical miles, lasting 37 minutes and consuming 212 kilograms of fuel.
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