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Improve the 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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,312 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 266 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then departed from runway 15 at LOWS Salzburg Airport, with a takeoff distance of 999 meters, which accounted for 43% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 135 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 2 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 11 knots blowing from 281 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 9 knots and a tailwind of 6 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile southwest of Salzburg, Austria, and rising from an altitude of 2,481 feet above sea level to 3,086 feet, an increase of 605 feet in just 1 minute, while covering a distance of 2 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 6 nautical miles. This phase began 1 mile northwest of Elsbethen, Salzburg, Austria. The final approach to runway 15 at LOWS Salzburg Airport was made from the northwest, with the aircraft heading 138.0 degrees at an altitude of 694 feet above ground level and a distance of 3 nautical miles from the runway.
The landing on runway 15 was successful, with the touchdown distance being good at 265 meters. The touchdown speed was also within acceptable limits at 111 knots. However, the touchdown rate was fair at -265 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 5.4 meters. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 1 degree Celsius, with a wind speed of 11 knots blowing from 275 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 10 knots and a tailwind of 5 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,194 meters, which accounted for 52% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was excessively misaligned from the centerline by 186.6 meters. The flight then concluded with the aircraft taxiing to the parking area, a process that took 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 14 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 10 minutes, with the aircraft using 337 kilograms of fuel.
The aircraft in question, an E195, successfully landed at LOWS Salzburg Airport, achieving an impressive score of 87.4%. The final approach was conducted from the north-west, heading 138.0° at a distance of 3 nautical miles and an altitude of 694 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft then landed on runway 15, which has a length of 2,312 meters.
The threshold height was reported as good, indicating that the aircraft was at the correct height as it approached the runway. However, the threshold speed was slightly below the target speed of 114 knots, which may have been due to various factors such as wind resistance or pilot adjustments. The touchdown distance was good, measuring 265 meters, and the touchdown speed was also within acceptable limits at 111 knots.
Despite the good touchdown speed, the touchdown rate was only fair, measuring -265 feet per minute (fpm). This may indicate that the aircraft was not fully arrested upon touchdown, potentially due to the tailwind component of 5 knots. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 5.4 meters, which may have contributed to the subsequent rollout issues.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 1°C and a wind speed of 11 knots from a direction of 275°. This resulted in a crosswind component of 10 knots and a tailwind component of 5 knots. The total landing distance was 1,194 meters, which is approximately 52% of the runway length.
However, the runway rollout alignment was excessively misaligned from the centreline by 186.6 meters, indicating that the aircraft may have deviated from the intended path during the rollout phase. This may have been due to various factors such as pilot error, aircraft performance, or wind resistance. Overall, while the landing was successful, there are areas for improvement, particularly in terms of touchdown rate and rollout alignment.
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