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Arrival
Add power on short final to hold speed at 119 kt, correcting the slow threshold speed before it carries through to the flare.
What happened: Threshold speed was slow at 110 kt against 119 kt, and touchdown followed short of the aim point at 89 m. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries the touchdown short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 119 kt on short final.
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.
Lifted off at 135 kt with 7.6° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 174 kt, 14 kt under its 188 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 809 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,364 m of runway left; gear up at 8 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,970 fpm on average to 809 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 2,986 m runway.
Rolled from 44 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 5.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.6 m right, in 8 kn of crosswind from the right. 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 119 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: left of the centreline all the way, banked until 3.6 nm, high until 0.4 nm, sinking too fast from 0.5 nm and slow 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.
High from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.4 nm (up to 1,510 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 343 m left of the centreline at 3.8 nm.
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 30 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Outside the speed band 4 times; furthest −15 kt at 0.1 nm.
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 aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 349° at 2 kt · 1 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 108 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 8 s, an average deceleration of 0.53 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 925 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 53 ft, 395 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 78 ft, 28 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 89 m before the threshold.
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 925 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m 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.
Plan view — the full 925 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
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.
Touched down 89 m short of the threshold. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna Citation Longitude taxied from the parking area to runway 13 at ORKK Kirkuk Air Base in 92 minutes, covering 15 nm on the ground.
During the departure roll on runway 13, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 135 kt and left the runway after traveling 1,218 m, which represented 41 % of the available length. Ambient conditions were 49 °C with a wind from 180° at 15 kt, including an 11 kt cross-wind component and a 10 kt head-wind component.
The climb commenced overhead the departure airport, climbing from 1,933 ft asl to 40,008 ft asl - an altitude gain of 38,076 ft - in 15 minutes while covering 98 nm.
Level cruise began 12 mi south-east of ORTF Tall Afar Army Air Field and continued for 460 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 1,409 nm.
Descent operations started 34 mi north of Ancona, Italy, with the aircraft descending from 39,994 ft asl to 5,071 ft asl - a loss of 34,924 ft - in 18 minutes and traversing 115 nm.
A brief cruise segment followed, initiating 1 mi north of Vergato, Italy, and lasting 5 minutes while covering 14 nm.
The next descent began 1 mi east of Sestola, Italy, with a reduction from 5,017 ft asl to 3,292 ft asl - a decrease of 1,725 ft - in 2 minutes over a distance of 3 nm.
Final approach to runway 02 at LIDP Pavullo Airfield was conducted from the south, on a heading of 14.0° at 2 nm and 1,047 ft agl.
Touchdown occurred before the runway threshold at a speed of 104 kt; the vertical speed at impact was minus 424 fpm. The touchdown point was offset by 4.7 m from the centreline. Local weather at the time was 25 °C with a wind from 349° at 1 kt, including a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind. The aircraft required a landing distance of 197 m, representing 21 % of the runway length.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm on the ground.
In total, the flight covered 1,658 nm, took 288, and consumed 3,572 kg of fuel.
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