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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 6.3°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 46 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 46 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 46 ft to touchdown.
See Arrival Landing
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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 six 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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 10,211 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,359 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 750 Citation X taxied from the parking area to runway 11R at VVNB Noi Bai International Airport in a period of 9 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 11R, the aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 2,860 ft, representing 22 % of the runway length, and lifted off at 139 kt; ambient temperature was 88 °F with a wind of 5 kt from 30°, a cross-wind component of 5 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt.
The climb commenced overhead the airport, climbing from 734 ft asl to 43,998 ft asl-a gain of 43,264 ft-over 18 minutes while traversing 125 nm.
Cruise flight began 19 miles west of VLSN Sam Neua Airport and continued for 16 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 137 nm at level altitude.
Descent was initiated 13 miles north-west of Sainyabuli, descending from 44,006 ft asl to 2,391 ft asl, a loss of 41,616 ft in 28 minutes and a distance of 176 nm.
The final approach to runway 18 at VTCC Chiang Mai International Airport was flown from the north, on a heading of 180.0° at 4 nm and 1,360 ft agl.
Landing on runway 18, whose total length is 10,178 ft, the aircraft touched down after a distance of 1,352 ft at a speed of 103 kt; the touchdown rate was minus 546 fpm, and the alignment was perfect. The threshold height of 75 ft agl was above target, while the threshold speed of 106 kt was slightly below target. Local weather reported a temperature of 82 °F and calm winds.
Runway rollout continued for a total landing distance of 2,784 ft, equivalent to 27 % of the runway, with the aircraft remaining aligned perfectly along the centreline.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied back to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 449 nm, required 73 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 2,157 lbs of fuel.
The Cessna 750 Citation X approached runway 18 at VTCC Chiang Mai International Airport on a final approach from the north, heading 180.0° at 4 nm and 1,360 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
At the threshold the aircraft encountered a height of 75 ft agl, which was well above target, and a threshold speed of 106 kt, a little below target. Runway 18 measures 10,178 ft in length and the local weather was 82 °F with wind 0 kt from 186°.
Touchdown occurred 1,352 ft down the runway, a good distance, at a speed of 103 kt, also good. The touchdown rate was very hard at minus 546 fpm and runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The total landing distance was 2,784 ft, representing 27 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Refine the flare to achieve the intended threshold height and reduce the hard touchdown rate, while preserving the stabilised approach already demonstrated. Maintaining the current aim point and speed will support a smoother touchdown without compromising runway usage.
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