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Add power on short final to hold 123 kt at the threshold rather than letting speed decay.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 106 kt against a target of 123 kt, below reference speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, hold 123 kt down to the threshold.
Departure
Rotate the moment the speed tape reaches 125 kt, not after it.
What happened: Rotation was held until 149 kt, 24 kt past the 125 kt rotation target. Carrying that much extra speed into rotation usually adds unwanted energy right at liftoff.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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 6,098 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 463 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 05 at KBCT Boca Raton Airport, a movement that lasted 1 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 05, accelerating through a takeoff distance of 3,321 ft (60 % of the runway) and lifting off at 150 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 63 °F, wind 1 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
Climb began 1 mile west of Highland Beach, Florida, with the airplane climbing from 823 ft asl to 20,000 ft asl, an altitude gain of 19,177 ft achieved in 7 minutes while covering 39 nm.
Level cruise was established 3 miles south east of X58 Indiantown, Florida, and persisted for 50 minutes, during which 388 nm were flown.
Descent commenced 3 miles south east of Hardwick, Georgia, descending from 19,997 ft asl to 2,503 ft asl, a loss of 17,494 ft over 11 minutes and a distance of 62 nm.
A brief level cruise followed overhead Bogart, Georgia, lasting 2 minutes and covering 5 nm.
The final approach to runway 09 at KAHN Athens Ben Epps Airport was flown from the west on a heading of 88.0°, intercepting the approach at 4 nm and 1,267 ft agl.
Landing on runway 09, which measures 6,098 ft, the aircraft touched down at a threshold speed of 106 kt, with a touchdown distance of 463 ft and a touchdown speed of 104 kt. The touchdown rate was firm at minus 323 fpm and runway alignment was very good. Weather at the time showed a temperature of 59 °F, wind 1 kt from 270°, no crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind. Total landing distance recorded was 1,772 ft, representing 29 % of the runway.
Runway rollout proceeded with alignment remaining very good, completing the landing roll within the recorded distance.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area, a movement that lasted 1 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 500 nm, required 76 (unspecified units) of elapsed time, and consumed 242 lbs of fuel.
The Cessna 750 Citation X entered the final approach to runway 09 at KAHN Athens Ben Epps Airport from the west on a heading of 88.0° at 4 NM and 1,267 ft agl. Local weather was 59 °F with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, a crosswind of 0 kt and a tailwind component of 1 kt. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
During the threshold and flare phase the aircraft maintained a good threshold height and the threshold speed was a little below target at 106 kt.
Touchdown occurred 463 ft down the runway at a speed of 104 kt, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 323 fpm and runway touchdown alignment described as very good.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,772 ft, representing 29 % of the 6,098-ft runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Fine-tune speed management to achieve the target threshold speed and moderate the touchdown rate to reduce firmness, which will further improve the already high score.
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