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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 169 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 30 kt fast at 199 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 169 kt in the climb
Arrival
After the sink arrests at 19 ft, keep easing the yoke forward to let the aircraft continue settling rather than pausing above the runway.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 19 ft and the aircraft was held level there instead of being let down. Holding off high like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown, and here the touchdown rate was 374 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, continuing descent through the flare all the way to touchdown.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 130 kt, 5 kt above the 125 kt target, and lifted off at 142 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 averaged 199 kt, 30 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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 959 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 2,697 ft of runway left; gear up at 77 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,770 fpm on average to 959 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 5,983 ft runway.
Rolled from 156 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 6 ft at the widest, and lifted off 6 ft left. Airborne 40 % 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.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 28 kt above the approach speed of 113 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 17 kt above the approach speed of 113 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, about 250 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 30 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 20 ft 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 28 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 0.6 nm (up to +65 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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 flare took the sink out 19 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft flew down from there. Touchdown was 1,863 ft past the threshold. Let it come lower before checking the descent - holding off high uses runway and leaves the touchdown to chance.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 1 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 100 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 s, an average deceleration of 0.30 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 52 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 33 ft. Touched down 1,863 ft in, 863 ft past 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 580 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at 19 ft, then back up to 370 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.0° 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 7,391 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 20 ft left of the centreline, and steered back to 3 ft right 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 1,863 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 374 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 750 Citation X taxied from the parking area to runway 07 at KLZU Gwinnett County Briscoe Field in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was on runway 07. The aircraft used 2,414 ft of runway, which was 40 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 130 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 61 °F, wind 2 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt, tailwind 2 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 30 seconds, averaging 1,761 fpm and reaching 214 kt at the top of the climb.
The climb continued from 2,063 ft asl to 12,009 ft asl in 5 minutes, covering 25 nm, beginning 1 mile west of Dacula.
Level cruise was held at 12,000 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 32 nm, beginning 2 miles north-east of 2GE5 Chukkar Farm Ultralightport Alpharetta.
Descent from 12,006 ft asl to 1,964 ft asl took 13 minutes, covering 60 nm, beginning 2 miles north-east of KCZL Tom B, with a brief level-off at 3,800 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 02 at KCHA Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field) began at 1,327 ft agl and descended to 78 ft agl in 98 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, and wings level; speed was not met. The landing gear was lowered at 1,391 ft agl at 196 kt. Flaps were set to position 4 at 520 ft agl at 138 kt.
Landing on runway 02 (runway length 7,391 ft) had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 114 kt. The flare was described as very good, though held off too high. Touchdown occurred 458 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 98 kt, with a firm rate of minus 375 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 20 ft from the centreline. Local weather was temperature 59 °F, wind 2 kt from 270°, crosswind 2 kt, tailwind 1 kt. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 3,199 ft, 43 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 124 nm in 29 minutes and used 0 lb of fuel.
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