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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 56 kt fast at 225 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 169 kt in the climb
Arrival
Add power on final to cross the threshold at 122 kt, correcting the speed before the flare begins.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 18 kt below the 122 kt target, and the flare that followed raised the nose only 2.3° with little of the sink taken out. Shallow, underpowered approaches like this usually carry through into a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 122 kt at the threshold
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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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 5,839 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 270 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 22R at KLIT Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field; the taxi-out required 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 22R, achieving a takeoff distance of 2,841 ft (34 % of the runway) and lifting off at 142 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 62 °F, wind 2 kt from 269°, with a 2 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind component.
Climb began 1 mile northwest of Sweet Home, Arkansas, ascending from 1,002 ft asl to 30,012 ft asl - an increase of 29,010 ft - in 12 minutes while covering 75 nm.
Level cruise started 2 miles south of KMEL Melbourne Airport, Arkansas, and persisted for 43 minutes, during which 382 nm were flown.
Descent was initiated 1 mile southwest of 0IL9 Jack W Watson Airport, DeKalb, Illinois, descending from 30,001 ft asl to 3,008 ft asl - a loss of 26,993 ft - in 16 minutes and covering 93 nm.
A second level cruise commenced 2 miles northeast of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, lasting 3 minutes and spanning 9 nm.
Final approach to runway 28 at KUES Waukesha County Airport was flown from the east on a heading of 282.0° at 4 nm and 1,484 ft agl.
Landing on runway 28 (runway length 5,839 ft) featured a threshold speed slightly below target at 104 kt. Touchdown occurred 260 ft down the runway at 102 kt with a hard touchdown rate of minus 471 fpm, and the aircraft touched down 20 ft off the centreline. Local weather at the time was 59 °F with wind 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind. Total landing distance was 1,718 ft, representing 29 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied back to the parking area from the runway in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 567 nm, took 80 minutes, and consumed 160 lb of fuel.
The Cessna 750 Citation X entered the final approach to runway 28 at KUES from the east on a heading of 282.0 °, 4 nm out and 1,484 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, and the local weather was 59 °F with wind 2 kt from 270 °, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good threshold height and the threshold speed was a little below target at 104 kt.
Touchdown occurred 260 ft down the runway at a speed of 102 kt. The touchdown rate was hard at minus 471 fpm and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 20 ft from the centreline. Total landing distance was 1,718 ft, representing 29 % of the 5,839-ft runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
To refine the performance, focus on moderating the flare to reduce the hard touchdown rate and on fine-tuning the final alignment to eliminate the 20-ft centreline offset.
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