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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 57 kt with 7.7° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 347 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 928 m of runway left; then climbing at 460 fpm on average to 347 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.
Plan view the roll down the 1,464 m runway.
Rolled from 258 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 14 m at the widest, and lifted off 15 m right, in 20 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 28 % 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 0.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 70 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 133 m right of the centreline at 0.6 nm.
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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +5 kt on the approach speed of 67 kt.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
17 kt across from the left, which takes about 18° of crab to hold the centreline at 56 kt. Touched down with 18° of it still on, 2° of bank.
Wind 211° at 18 kt · 1 kt tail · 17 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.
From 54 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 15 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 716 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 252 m in, 53 m short of 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 716 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 180 fpm at 22 ft to 20 fpm at 3 ft, then back up to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° 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 full 716 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.6 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.6 m left at the widest.
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.
The 252 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.10 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, an Icon A5, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KSBP San Luis County Regional Airport. This process took approximately 2 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 11, and the takeoff distance was 418 meters, which accounted for 29% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 57 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 13 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 20 knots from a direction of 211 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 20 knots and a headwind of 1 knot. The aircraft began its enroute climb overhead KSBP San Luis County Regional Airport, San Luis Obispo, California, and ascended from an altitude of 533 feet above sea level to 4,651 feet above sea level, an increase of 4,118 feet in 6 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its enroute descent 1 mile south of KSBP San Luis County Regional Airport. The descent took place from an altitude of 4,661 feet above sea level to 169 feet above sea level, a decrease of 4,492 feet in 8 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 29 at L52 Oceano County Airport was made from the east, heading 295.0 degrees at an altitude of 152 feet above ground level and a distance of 0 nautical miles from the runway. The landing took place on runway 29, which had a length of 716 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was slightly above the target speed at 64 knots.
The touchdown distance was good at 251 meters, but the touchdown speed was a little fast at 56 knots. The touchdown rate was excellent at -80 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.6 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were the same as those at takeoff, with a temperature of 13 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 20 knots from a direction of 211 degrees.
The total landing distance was 563 meters, which accounted for 79% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was significantly misaligned by 45.3 meters from the centreline. The total flight distance was 16 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 17 minutes. The aircraft used 2 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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