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Departure
Ease the nose up sooner to lift off at 125 kt instead of letting speed build on the ground.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 144 kt, 19 kt above the target liftoff speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 125 kt at liftoff
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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed back to 112 kt well before the gate.
What happened: Approach was fast through the stabilisation gate, and the threshold was crossed at 132 kt against the 112 kt target. Carrying that extra speed in usually carries the touchdown long, which it did here at 579 m against the 457 m target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 112 kt at the threshold
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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed 23 kt FAST on the reference speed of 112 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 1,831 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 579 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 35R at CYYC Calgary International Airport in 14 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 35R, the Cessna 750 Citation X used 1,430 m of runway, representing 34 % of the available length, and lifted off at 144 kt. Ambient temperature was 8 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 356°, providing a 2 kt headwind and no cross-wind component.
Climb commenced approximately 3 mi north of CYYC, with the aircraft ascending from 4,549 ft asl to 40,933 ft asl, a gain of 36,384 ft achieved in 25 minutes while covering 175 nm.
Level cruise began about 22 mi east of Medicine Hat and continued for 154 minutes, during which the flight covered 1,476 nm.
Descent was initiated roughly 6 mi southeast of 0PA3 Robbins Farm Airport, Troy, PA, with the aircraft descending from 40,819 ft asl to 1,261 ft asl, a loss of 39,558 ft over 20 minutes and a distance of 131 nm.
The final approach to runway 06 at KTEB Teterboro Airport involved a descent from 1,281 ft agl to 51 ft agl in 103 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 06 was performed with a threshold speed of 132 kt, while touchdown occurred at 115 kt, 158 m beyond the touchdown zone and 3.5 m off the centreline. The touchdown rate was smooth at minus 107 fpm, and the total landing roll measured 1,034 m, equivalent to 56 % of the 1,831 m runway. Local conditions were 27 °C, wind 2 kt from 30°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good, confirming the aircraft remained on the centreline during the deceleration phase.
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 1,797 nm, required 216 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 3,853 kg of fuel.
The Cessna 750 Citation X approached runway 06 at KTEB Teterboro Airport with an unstable assessment at the 1,000 ft gate, being more than 20 kt above VREF. The final approach descended from 1,281 ft agl to 51 ft agl in 103 seconds under temperature 27 °C, wind 2 kt from 30°, with a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
At threshold the aircraft’s speed was well above target at 132 kt and the threshold height was reported as good. The flare proceeded from this condition without further comment.
Touchdown occurred 158 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 115 kt, noted as a little fast, and a smooth vertical rate of minus 107 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned, being 3.5 m off the centreline.
Rollout alignment was very good and the aircraft used a total landing distance of 1,034 m, representing 56 % of the 1,831 m runway.
To bring the overall score closer to perfection, reduce speed to the VREF target by the 1,000 ft gate and manage the flare to achieve touchdown speed at or near VREF. Maintaining the correct approach speed will also help keep the touchdown point within the intended zone.
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