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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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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 2,118 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,118 m of the 2,847 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 460 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, then departed from runway 13L at LFML Marseille Provence Airport. The takeoff distance was 1,433 meters, which accounted for 42% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 165 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 17 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 20 knots from a direction of 120 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 5 knots and a headwind of 20 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead Saint-Victoret in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of France. The climb took 19 minutes and covered a distance of 113 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 1,083 feet above sea level to 32,874 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started overhead Saint-Marcel-les-Annonay in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of France. This phase lasted for 45 minutes and covered a distance of 319 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting overhead Wez-Velvain in the Wallonia region of Belgium. The descent took 28 minutes and covered a distance of 129 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 32,717 feet to 1,967 feet.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started overhead Oostknollendam in the Provincie Noord-Holland region of the Netherlands. This phase lasted for just 3 minutes and covered a distance of 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 18C at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, approaching from the north at a heading of 184.0 degrees and at an altitude of 1,260 feet above ground level.
The landing was made on runway 18C, which had a length of 2,847 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was slightly above the target speed of 150 knots. The touchdown point was 53 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 149 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was hard at -450 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.8 meters from the centreline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 13 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 14 knots from a direction of 100 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 14 knots and a headwind of 2 knots. The total landing distance was 2,046 meters, which accounted for 72% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 13.4 meters from the centreline.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 578 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 113 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 4,352 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft successfully landed at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, with a score of 91.4%. The final approach to runway 18C was initiated from the north, heading 184.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,260 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft touched down on the runway, which has a length of 2,847 meters.
The threshold height was reported as good, but the threshold speed was slightly above the target speed of 150 knots. The touchdown point was 53 meters beyond the designated touchdown zone, indicating a slight deviation from the intended landing spot. The touchdown speed of 149 knots was a little fast, and the touchdown rate was hard at -450 feet per minute (fpm), which may have contributed to the slight deviation from the centerline.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.8 meters from the centerline, which may have been due to the hard touchdown rate. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 13°C and a wind speed of 14 knots at 100°. The crosswind component was 14 knots, while the headwind component was 2 knots. These conditions may have affected the aircraft's approach and landing.
The total landing distance was 2,046 meters, which is 72% of the runway length. This indicates that the aircraft was able to stop within a reasonable distance after touchdown. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 13.4 meters from the centerline, which may have been due to the hard touchdown rate and the slight deviation from the centerline during touchdown.
Overall, the landing was successful, but there were some minor deviations from the intended landing spot and speed. The hard touchdown rate and slight misalignment of the runway touchdown position and rollout alignment may have been due to the wind conditions and the aircraft's approach speed.
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