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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 17 ft off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 162 ft.
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 5,242 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,242 ft of the 10,770 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,582 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 33 at KCHS Charleston International Airport, a movement that lasted 14 minutes and covered 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 33, the Boeing 737-900 accelerated over 6,735 ft, representing 75 % of the available runway, and lifted off at 170 kt; ambient temperature was 85 °F with a wind of 7 kt from 230°, a 7 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
Climb commenced 1 mile west of Hanahan, SC, with the aircraft ascending from 1,022 ft asl to 36,004 ft asl, a gain of 34,982 ft achieved in 25 minutes while covering 171 nm.
The first cruise segment began 3 miles north-west of Polkville, NC, and persisted for 54 minutes, during which the flight covered 419 nm at level altitude.
Descent was initiated 1 mile north-east of KRWN Arens Field, Winamac, IN, with a reduction from 36,005 ft asl to 4,108 ft asl, a loss of 31,897 ft in 19 minutes over a distance of 113 nm.
A brief cruise segment started 1 mile north-west of Wayne, IL, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 5 nm.
The subsequent descent began 2 miles south of Hanover Park, IL, decreasing altitude from 3,646 ft asl to 1,945 ft asl, a loss of 1,700 ft in 2 minutes while covering another 5 nm.
Final approach to runway 10C at KORD Chicago O’Hare International Airport was conducted from the west on a heading of 90.0°, with the aircraft established at 4 nm and 1,257 ft agl.
A go-around was executed on runway 10C at KORD when the aircraft reached 163 ft agl, prompting a climb back to a missed-approach altitude before a subsequent approach.
Landing on runway 10C, which measures 10,770 ft, occurred with a threshold speed of 149 kt; touchdown was recorded 252 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 143 kt, a rate of minus 122 fpm, and the wheel-track was offset 17 ft from the centreline. Local conditions were 70 °F, wind 16 kt from 20°, with a 15 kt cross-wind and a 6 kt head-wind component. The total landing distance was 5,012 ft, representing 47 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was noted as excessively misaligned by 162 ft from the centreline after touchdown.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 16 minutes, traversing 2 nm.
In total, the flight covered 795 nm, required 148 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 14,174 lb of fuel.
The Boeing 737-900 executed a final approach to runway 10C at KORD Chicago O’Hare International Airport from the west, maintaining a heading of 90.0° at 4 nm and 1,257 ft agl, with a temperature of 70 °F, wind 16 kt from 20°, a 15 kt cross-wind component and a 6 kt head-wind component; the overall score for the landing was 88.4 %.
At threshold the aircraft displayed good threshold height and the threshold speed was good at 149 kt.
Touchdown occurred 252 ft beyond the designated touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 143 kt that was a little fast, a smooth touchdown rate of minus 122 fpm, and a runway touchdown position slightly misaligned by 17 ft from the centreline; the total landing distance measured 5,012 ft, representing 47 % of the runway length.
During rollout the aircraft was excessively misaligned by 162 ft from the centreline.
Refine centreline tracking after touchdown to reduce the 162-ft rollout deviation, and aim to achieve a touchdown point closer to the intended zone to further shorten the landing distance.
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