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Departure
Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 150 kt, holding a steady rotation rate rather than snatching the controls.
What happened: On the takeoff roll the aircraft bounced before becoming fully airborne.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: a smooth, continuous pitch-up through liftoff with no secondary bounce.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed 48 kt FAST on the reference speed of 131 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,039 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 475 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Learjet 35 taxied from the parking area to the departure runway in six minutes, covering a distance of 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 06 at KTTN Trenton Mercer Airport, the aircraft used 1,132 m of runway, representing 62 % of the available length, and lifted off at 158 kt. Ambient conditions were 28 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
The initial climb commenced one mile north of Ewing, New Jersey, climbing from 1,171 ft asl to 24,603 ft asl, an altitude gain of 23,432 ft achieved in ten minutes while covering 66 nm.
A brief level cruise followed one mile south of NJ07 Newport Meadows Seaplane Base, lasting two minutes and extending the flight by 12 nm.
A second climb began overhead 0N4 Chandelle Airport, Dover, Delaware, ascending from 24,866 ft asl to 33,995 ft asl, a gain of 9,129 ft in eleven minutes and traversing 88 nm.
The aircraft then entered a longer level cruise six miles northwest of Tangier, Virginia, which persisted for fifty minutes and added 391 nm to the route.
Descent operations started five miles southwest of SC15 Airy Hall Airport, Green Pond, South Carolina, descending from 34,004 ft asl to 1,903 ft asl, a loss of 32,101 ft in twenty-three minutes while covering 140 nm.
A short level segment followed four miles northeast of Callahan, Florida, lasting three minutes and contributing an additional 10 nm.
Final approach to runway 08 at KJAX Jacksonville International Airport reduced altitude from 1,330 ft agl to 38 ft agl in ninety-four seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 08 was executed with a runway length of 3,039 m; the threshold speed was 126 kt, touchdown occurred 53 m beyond the touchdown zone at 115 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 190 fpm. Weather at the time was 27 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 150°, a 2 kt cross-wind and no head-wind component.
Runway rollout covered a distance of 1,385 m, representing 46 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was perfect.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in two minutes, traveling less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 715 nm, lasted 108 minutes, and consumed 1,204 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 08 at KJAX Jacksonville International Airport was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate, with the aircraft more than 20 kt above VREF. The descent was completed from 1,330 ft agl to 38 ft agl in 94 seconds, and the stabilisation gates were scored accordingly.
During the threshold and flare phase the threshold speed was recorded as good at 126 kt and the aircraft crossed the runway threshold at a good height. The touchdown point was measured 53 m beyond the touchdown zone, and the flare produced a touchdown speed of 115 kt with a good vertical rate of minus 190 fpm; runway alignment was perfect.
Touchdown occurred with the aircraft aligned perfectly on the centreline, maintaining the good speed and rate noted in the previous phase. The local weather was 27 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 150°, providing a cross-wind component of 2 kt and no head-wind component.
Rollout continued with perfect runway alignment and a total landing distance of 1,385 m, representing 46 % of the 3,039 m runway length.
To convert the high approach speed into a fully stabilised profile, focus on reducing speed to VREF by the 1,000 ft gate. Additionally, aim to place the touchdown point nearer the designated touchdown zone to minimise the 53 m overshoot.
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