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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 127 kt with 7.3° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 172 kt, 7 kt under its 179 kt target.
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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 998 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,280 m of runway left; gear up at 243 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,590 fpm on average to 998 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. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,403 m runway.
Rolled from 117 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.7 m left, in 12 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 37 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then not again: fast from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 30 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. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 7 m off the centreline.
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 52 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 31 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +16 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
The flare tracked the target profile exactly. Crossing the threshold 16 kt above target, the flare took the sink out 0 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft flew down from there. Touchdown was 603 m past the threshold. Let it come lower before checking the descent - holding off high uses runway and leaves the touchdown to chance.
7 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 108 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 180° at 8 kt · 1 kt head · 7 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 107 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 47 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 18 ft. Touched down 603 m in, 298 m past 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 1,524 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 370 fpm at the flare to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.0° 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 first 1,524 m of the 1,808 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.7 m right of the centreline and drifted to 7.2 m left on the rollout.
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.
Touched down 603 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.23 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight departed from Saint-Nazaire-Montoir Airport (LFRZ) on runway 25, with a takeoff distance of 912 meters, which accounted for 38% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 127 knots, with a local temperature of 15°C and a wind of 15 knots at 190 degrees. The crosswind component was 13 knots, while the headwind component was 6 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to its enroute level, it passed overhead Trignac, reaching an altitude of 17,992 feet above sea level in 7 minutes, covering a distance of 32 nautical miles. The climb rate was significant, with an increase of 16,933 feet in a short period. The aircraft then entered a level cruise, first at an altitude of 17,280 feet above sea level, and later at 6,761 feet above sea level, with various segments of level flight interspersed with descents. The total enroute distance covered was 252 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 74 minutes.
The aircraft began its final approach to Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LFPB) on runway 27, with a heading of 265.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles from the threshold. The touchdown point was 224 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 108 knots, which was slightly faster than target. The touchdown rate was good, at -170 feet per minute. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, taking 10 minutes to cover a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total fuel consumption for the flight was 428 kilograms.
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