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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 for a circuit: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 980 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 980 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 715 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Pilatus PC-24 registered N971LY taxied to runway 32 at BISF Selfoss Airport and commenced its departure roll. The aircraft lifted off after a take-off run of 704 m, representing 72 % of the available runway, at a speed of 125 kt. Ambient conditions were 11 °C with a wind from 200° at 9 kt, including a 9 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt tail-wind component.
During the approach phase the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern for runway 32, covering 1 nm in 32 seconds. It then proceeded on the left-hand crosswind leg for another 1 nm in 17 seconds, followed by a downwind turn of 6 nm at a 45° angle to the runway with a measured angle of 23.8°. The downwind leg itself was 1 nm long and was flown in 28 seconds. From the north-west the aircraft turned final for runway 14, aligning on a heading of 132.0° at 3 nm distance and 880 ft AGL.
Landing was executed on runway 14, whose length is 980 m. The threshold speed was slightly above the target at 124 kt, and the aircraft touched down beyond the 75 % mark of the runway. Touchdown speed was 112 kt and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 255 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 12.7 m from the centreline. Weather at the time remained 11 °C with a wind from 200° at 9 kt, now reported as a 9 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind component.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,095 m, equal to 112 % of the runway length, and the aircraft’s alignment during rollout was off centreline by 12.1 m.
In total the flight covered 15 nm, required 5 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 29 kg of fuel.
The Pilatus PC-24 N971LY performed a final approach to runway 14 at BISF Selfoss Airport, tracking a heading of 132.0° from the north-west at 3 nm and 880 ft agl. The approach featured a good threshold height and a threshold speed slightly above target at 124 kt. Local weather was 11 °C with wind 9 kt from 200°, providing a 9 kt crosswind component and a 3 kt headwind component.
During the threshold and flare segment the aircraft maintained the slightly high threshold speed of 124 kt while the good threshold height supported a stable flare. No further deviations were noted in this phase.
Touchdown occurred excessively long, using more than 75 % of the available 980 m runway. The touchdown speed was 112 kt, rated good, and the vertical rate was minus 255 fpm, rated fair. The touchdown point was misaligned by 12.7 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 1,095 m, representing 112 % of the runway length.
Rollout alignment was slightly off, with the aircraft deviating 12.1 m from the centreline during the rollout.
Reduce the touchdown point to an earlier portion of the runway to keep the landing distance within the available runway length, and aim to keep touchdown and rollout alignment within a few metres of the centreline to improve overall landing precision.
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