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Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 5.6 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 14 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit 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 1,668 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,668 m of the 3,277 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 427 m 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 25 at LIRF Rome-Fiumicino, a movement that lasted 12 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 25, the aircraft accelerated over a takeoff distance of 1,859 m, representing 59 % of the runway, and lifted off at 162 kt. Local weather at the time was 33 °C with wind 9 kt from 260°, a 2 kt crosswind component and a 9 kt headwind.
Climb commenced overhead LIRF, rising from 962 ft asl to 35,520 ft asl, an increase of 34,558 ft achieved in 21 minutes while covering 126 nm.
Level cruise began 7 miles west of San Vincenzo and continued for 101 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 705 nm.
Descent started 1 mile south-west of Wootton, descending from 35,990 ft asl to 3,004 ft asl, a loss of 32,986 ft in 20 minutes and covering 106 nm.
A subsequent climb was initiated 2 miles east of Northwich, gaining 522 ft from 3,001 ft asl to 3,522 ft asl in 2 minutes while traveling 5 nm.
Cruise resumed overhead Mobberley, lasting 6 minutes and covering 24 nm.
Descent recommenced 1 mile south-east of Northwich, dropping from 2,948 ft asl to 1,500 ft asl, a decrease of 1,448 ft in 2 minutes and covering 4 nm.
The final approach to runway 05R at EGCC Manchester Airport was established from the south-west, heading 51.0° at 4 nm and 1,273 ft agl.
Landing on runway 05R, which is 3,284 m long, the aircraft recorded a threshold speed of 137 kt. Touchdown occurred 433 m down the runway at 129 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 174 fpm and a runway touchdown position 6.2 m off centreline. Local weather was 20 °C with wind 7 kt from 290°, a 6 kt crosswind and a 4 kt tailwind.
Runway rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 13.4 m, and total landing distance measured 1,595 m, representing 49 % of the runway.
The aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall the flight covered 979 nm, required 170 minutes, and used 6,418 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320 approached runway 05R at EGCC Manchester from the south-west on a final approach heading 51.0° at 4 nm and 1,273 ft agl, with temperature 20 °C, wind 7 kt from 290°, a 6 kt crosswind component and a 4 kt tailwind component.
At threshold the height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 137 kt.
Touchdown occurred 433 m down the runway, a distance judged good, with a touchdown speed of 129 kt described as a little fast and a touchdown rate of minus 174 fpm rated good. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 6.2 m from the centreline and the total landing distance was 1,595 m, representing 49 % of the runway length.
During rollout the aircraft remained slightly misaligned, deviating 13.4 m from the centreline.
With a final score of 95.2 % the landing was strong; refining the touchdown speed to closer match the target and tightening centreline alignment in touchdown and rollout will further improve precision.
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