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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.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 9 stages, 7 scored
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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 360 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 360 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 214 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TL3000 Sirius taxied to runway 05 at EDWL Langeoog Airport and commenced the take-off roll. The aircraft accelerated over a distance of 229 m, representing 37 % of the runway, and lifted off at 54 kt. Ambient conditions were 17 °C with a wind of 12 kt from 194°, a cross-wind component of 7 kt and a tail-wind component of 9 kt.
Climb began shortly after departure, with the aircraft climbing from 261 ft asl to 924 ft asl, an increase of 663 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 2 nm. The climb was conducted overhead Langeoog in Lower Saxony, Germany.
The approach concluded on runway 27 at EDWZ Baltrum Airport, whose length is 360 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 65 kt, well above the target. Touchdown occurred beyond the midpoint of the runway, using more than 50 % of the available length, with a speed of 57 kt and a descent rate of minus 214 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 8.3 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 17 °C, wind 9 kt from 193°, a cross-wind of 9 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt.
Rollout distance measured 295 m, equivalent to 82 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s alignment during rollout remained slightly off centreline by 8.2 m.
In total, the flight covered 3 nm, took 7, and used 2 kg of fuel.
The aircraft TL3000 Sirius touched down on runway 27 at EDWZ Baltrum Airport under a temperature of 17 °C, a wind of 9 kt from 193°, giving a 9 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component. The threshold height was reported as good, while the threshold speed was well above target at 65 kt.
During the touchdown phase the aircraft used more than 50 % of the available runway, indicating a very long touchdown point. Touchdown speed was a little fast at 57 kt and the vertical rate was fair at minus 214 fpm. The touchdown position was misaligned by 8.3 m from the centreline.
The total landing distance recorded was 295 m, representing 82 % of the 360 m runway, and the rollout remained slightly misaligned by 8.2 m from the centreline.
To refine future performances, aim to achieve touchdown within the first 300 m (approximately 1 000 ft) of the runway to preserve runway margin, and focus on maintaining centreline alignment to reduce lateral deviation during both touchdown and rollout.
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