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Slow down before tight turns
The one change that would have gained the most on this flight, and the guide passage for it.
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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Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 6,032 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 849 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 26L at KATL, a movement that required 5 minutes and covered approximately 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 26L, the aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 3,070 ft, representing 31 % of the runway, and achieved liftoff at 143 kt. Ambient conditions were 63 °F with a 2-kt wind from 270°, providing a 2-kt headwind and no crosswind.
Climb commenced overhead College Park, GA, with the airplane ascending from 1,999 ft asl to 30,011 ft asl-a gain of 28,012 ft-over 12 minutes while covering 75 nm.
Level cruise began 1 mile southwest of Munford, AL, and was maintained for 54 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 475 nm.
Descent was initiated 4 miles southeast of Quitman, TX, with the aircraft descending from 30,007 ft asl to 1,542 ft asl, a loss of 28,465 ft, in 18 minutes and over a distance of 105 nm.
The final approach to runway 13 at KRBD was flown from the northwest, on a heading of 134.0° at 3 nm and 883 ft agl.
Landing on runway 13, which is 6,430 ft long, was executed with a threshold speed of 112 kt and a touchdown speed of 108 kt. The aircraft touched down after 1,242 ft, at a rate of minus 259 fpm, and alignment was noted as perfect. Weather at the time was 59 °F with a 2-kt wind from 270°, a 1-kt crosswind and a 1-kt tailwind.
The total landing distance recorded was 2,986 ft, equal to 46 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was described as very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In summary, the flight covered 662 nm, lasted 93 minutes, and consumed 303 lbs of fuel.
The Cessna 750 Citation X approached runway 13 at KRBD Dallas Executive Airport from the north-west on a heading of 134.0° at 3 nm and 883 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.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a speed slightly below target at 112 kt and encountered good threshold height on a runway 6,430 ft long. Local weather was 59 °F with wind 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt crosswind component and a 1 kt tailwind component.
Touchdown occurred 1,242 ft down the runway at a speed of 108 kt, with a fair vertical rate of minus 259 fpm and perfect runway alignment.
The total landing distance was 2,986 ft, representing 46 % of the available runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Maintain the high overall standard reflected by the 98.2 % score while refining the threshold speed to meet the target and moderating the sink rate to achieve a gentler touchdown vertical rate.
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