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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 101 kt with 3.4° 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 881 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,771 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,240 fpm on average to 881 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 2,434 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 3.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.2 m right. Airborne 18 % 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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 100 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 22× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 16 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
18 kt across from the left, which takes about 11° of crab to hold the centreline at 93 kt. Touched down with 11° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 200° at 16 kt · 6 kt head · 18 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 578 m in, 273 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 620 fpm at 43 ft to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° 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 3,063 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 12 m right of the centreline and drifted to 22 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.
Touched down 578 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.14 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 17 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Cockspur C510, then departed from runway 23R at Manchester Airport (EGCC), with a takeoff distance of 573 meters, which accounted for 24% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 101 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of a temperature of 4°C and a wind speed of 5 knots at 270°. The crosswind was 3 knots, and the headwind was 4 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile north of Mobberley in Cheshire East, England, and the aircraft climbed from 1,194 feet above sea level to 33,250 feet above sea level, an increase of 32,056 feet in 20 minutes, covering a distance of 84 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started overhead Tadmarton in Oxfordshire, England, and lasted for 9 minutes, covering a distance of 214 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another enroute climb, this time from 33,832 feet above sea level to 35,932 feet above sea level, an increase of 2,100 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 52 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise started overhead Larchant in Ile-de-France, France, and lasted for 16 minutes, covering a distance of 153 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began an enroute descent from 36,358 feet above sea level to 14,820 feet above sea level, a decrease of 21,537 feet in 11 minutes, covering a distance of 76 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise started 1 mile west of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another enroute descent from 14,824 feet above sea level to 2,683 feet above sea level, a decrease of 12,140 feet in 8 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 27 at Grenoble-Isère Airport (LFLS) was made from the east, heading 270.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,413 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 27, which had a length of 3,063 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 103 knots. The touchdown point was 148 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 93 knots, which was too fast. The touchdown rate was good at -156 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 12.5 meters from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 22.8 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 9°C and a wind speed of 16 knots at 199°. The crosswind was 15 knots, and the headwind was 5 knots. The total landing distance was 1,013 meters, which accounted for 33% of the runway.
After landing, the aircraft taxiing to the parking from the runway took 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 604 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 80 minutes. The aircraft used 665 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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