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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Rotate the moment the speed tape reaches 125 kt, not after it.
What happened: Rotation was held until 143 kt, 18 kt past the 125 kt rotation target. Carrying that much extra speed into rotation usually adds unwanted energy right at liftoff.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the 125 kt rotation target.
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 51 ft, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 47 ft.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 143 kt with 8.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 194 kt, 25 kt over its 169 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 915 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,154 ft of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,760 fpm on average to 915 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 7,989 ft runway.
Rolled from 307 ft in, drifted 10 ft left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 36 % 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 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.3 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 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 120 ft below the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 26× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 50 ft left of it from 0.3 nm to the threshold.
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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −10 kt and +11 kt on the approach speed of 123 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 mostly held the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.2° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 1,017 ft past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 0 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 30 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 27 ft. Touched down 1,017 ft in, close to the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 470 fpm at the flare to 230 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 5,000 ft of the 6,510 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 47 ft left of the centreline, and steered back to 19 ft left by the end of 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 1,017 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 22 at KSPI Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport; the taxi-out required 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Takeoff roll commenced on runway 22 at KSPI, with a measured distance of 2,932 ft, representing 37 % of the runway. Liftoff was achieved at 143 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 61 °F, wind 2 kt from 270°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind.
Climb began 1 mile southwest of KSPI, ascending from 1,630 ft asl to 20,013 ft asl, an increase of 18,383 ft in 8 minutes while covering 42 nm.
The first level cruise started 4 miles north of Decatur, Illinois, and lasted 32 minutes, covering 256 nm.
Descent was initiated 2 miles west of 7N4 Raymond L Kussmaul Jr Memorial Airport, Clinton, Michigan, descending from 19,998 ft asl to 2,929 ft asl, a decrease of 17,069 ft in 11 minutes and covering 58 nm.
A subsequent level cruise began 1 mile west of Rochester Hills, Michigan, lasting 2 minutes and covering 7 nm.
The final approach to runway 27L at KPTK Oakland County International Airport was flown from the east on a heading of 268.0°, at 4 nm and 1,253 ft agl.
Landing was executed on runway 27L, which is 6,510 ft long. The threshold speed was slightly below target at 113 kt. Touchdown occurred 1,016 ft down the runway at 106 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 254 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 48 ft from the centreline. Local weather reported a temperature of 59 °F, wind 2 kt from 270°, no crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
The total landing distance measured 3,003 ft, representing 46 % of the runway. During rollout the aircraft remained slightly misaligned, deviating 47 ft from the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In summary, the flight covered a total of 369 nm, took 60 minutes, and used 195 lbs of fuel.
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