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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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 625 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 625 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 370 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TL3000 Sirius taxied to runway 10 at EDWG Wangerooge Airport and commenced the take-off roll, covering 213 m which represented 25 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 55 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 17 °C, wind from 194° at 9 kt, a crosswind component of 8 kt and a tailwind component of 2 kt.
Climb began one mile east of Wangerooge, with the aircraft ascending from 717 ft asl to 1,960 ft asl, a gain of 1,243 ft achieved in two minutes while traversing four nautical miles.
The first cruise segment started two miles south-west of Wangerooge and lasted five minutes, during which nine nautical miles were covered at level flight.
Descent was initiated three miles west of Spiekeroog, with the aircraft descending from 1,954 ft asl to 819 ft asl, a loss of 1,136 ft over three minutes and a ground distance of five nautical miles.
A second cruise phase commenced overhead Langeoog, lasting three minutes and covering five nautical miles before the final approach.
Landing was executed on runway 23 at EDWL Langeoog Airport, whose length is 625 m. The threshold speed was slightly above the target at 62 kt. Touchdown occurred well beyond the usual point, using more than 50 % of the runway, with a touchdown speed of 45 kt and a touchdown rate of minus 27 fpm. The touchdown point was offset by 7.8 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was a temperature of 17 °C, wind from 195° at 9 kt, a crosswind component of 6 kt and a headwind component of 7 kt.
Rollout distance measured 488 m, representing 78 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 7.9 m.
In total the flight covered 23 nm, required 18 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
The aircraft TL3000 Sirius approached runway 23 at EDWL Langeoog Airport, a 625 m runway, with a good threshold height and a threshold speed slightly above target at 62 kt; local weather was 17 °C with a wind from 195° at 9 kt, including a 6 kt cross-wind component and a 7 kt head-wind component.
During the touchdown phase the aircraft landed very long, using more than 50 % of the available runway, and achieved a touchdown speed of 45 kt that was judged good. The touchdown rate was perfect at minus 27 fpm, while the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 7.8 m from the centreline, resulting in a total landing distance of 488 m, 78 % of the runway.
In rollout the aircraft remained slightly off centreline, with a rollout alignment deviation of 7.9 m from the centreline.
To convert the strong 93.0 % score into an even tighter performance, aim for the standard 300 m (1 000 ft) aim point to reduce the landing distance used, and focus on maintaining centreline alignment through touchdown and rollout to keep lateral deviations within a few metres.
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