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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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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: five 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.
Side view — the last 4,708 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 4,708 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 847 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Cessna CJ4 Citation started with a 3-minute taxi from the parking area to Runway 02 at KCHA Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport. The aircraft had an average speed of 12 knots during this taxi. The departure roll from Runway 02 covered 2,231 feet, which was 30% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was 154 knots, with local weather conditions showing a temperature of 62°F and a 1 knot wind coming from 270°.
The departure climb from Runway 02 took the aircraft to various altitudes, including 50 feet, 400 feet, and 1,000 feet above ground level. The enroute climb started 1 mile north of KCHA Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, climbing from 1,692 feet to 17,399 feet, covering 25 nautical miles in 6 minutes.
After reaching cruising altitude, the aircraft covered 269 nautical miles during a 43-minute level cruise that started 2 miles southwest of Benton, Tennessee. The enroute descent began 4 miles northeast of NR20 Raeford West Airport, descending from 18,005 feet to 13,128 feet over 38 nautical miles in 7 minutes.
The descent continued as the aircraft covered 25 nautical miles during a 4-minute level cruise that started 4 miles west of Keener, North Carolina. This was followed by another descent that started 7 miles west of Pink Hill, descending from 12,911 feet to 8,997 feet over 22 nautical miles in 4 minutes.
A brief 2-minute level cruise that covered 9 nautical miles started 2 miles northeast of NR37 Suter Field in Trenton, North Carolina, before another descent that started 2 miles west of NC20 Canaan Air Base Airport in New Bern, North Carolina. This descent took the aircraft from 8,366 feet to 859 feet over 33 nautical miles in 12 minutes.
The final approach to Runway 08 at KMRH Michael J. Smith Field involved descending from 850 feet above ground level to 32 feet above ground level over a distance of 2 nautical miles, with the aircraft landing slightly misaligned by 18 feet from the centerline. The landing touchdown was at 837 feet, with a speed of 94 knots and a touchdown rate of -152 feet per minute.
The total landing distance was 1,881 feet, which was 40% of the runway length, with a very good runway rollout alignment. After exiting the runway, the taxi to the parking area took 1 minute. In total, the flight covered a distance of 425 nautical miles in 87 minutes and used 0 pounds of fuel.
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