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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on approach to bring speed back to 119 kt by the gate.
What happened: The aircraft was too fast at the stabilisation gate, 37 kt above the target of 119 kt.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 119 kt at the gate
See Arrival Approach
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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Taxi out
The roll
A slow rotation
The nose came up at 134 kt against the 134 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.5° a second, slower than the 2.1 to 2.9 other Cessna 750 Citation X pilots fly.
The rotation started on speed but the nose came up slowly. Make it one positive, continuous pull at the normal rate for this aircraft, rather than easing the nose up in steps.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 8,189 ft runway.
Rolled from 208 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 7 ft at the widest, and lifted off 4 ft right. Airborne 39 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 815 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,737 ft of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,580 fpm on average to 815 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 2.1 to 2.9° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Cessna 750 Citation X pilots over the last 180 days (54 takeoffs). A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 30 kt above the approach speed of 119 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 119 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 to 0.3 nm, then not again: low 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 50 ft under).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 30 ft off the centreline.
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.
Fast from 4 nm to 0.6 nm (up to +48 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Excellent landing flare
It lost 2.4 points, mostly for taking only 330 fpm of the sink out.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 35 ft, 538 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 15 ft, 35 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 748 ft in, 252 ft short of the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 510 fpm at the flare to 250 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.6° on the way down. Into the flare at 118 kt, on the 119 kt approach speed, and 108 kt at touchdown.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 9,991 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 23 ft left of the centreline, and steered back to 8 ft left by the end of the rollout. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 0 kt tail · 2 kt across
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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way. 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 748 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 110 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 750 Citation X taxied from the parking area to runway 23 at KCAK Akron Canton Regional Airport in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Takeoff was on runway 23. The aircraft used 3,264 ft of runway, about 40 % of the available length, and rotated at 124 kt. Local weather was 63 °F with wind 2 kt from 269°, giving a 1 kt headwind and 1 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 28 seconds, averaging 1,576 fpm and reaching 168 kt at the top of the climb.
The climb continued from 2,075 ft asl to 15,013 ft asl in 7 minutes, covering 27 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-west of KCAK.
Level cruise was flown at 15,000 ft asl for 37 minutes, covering 248 nm, starting roughly 2 miles south-east of 2W8 Atwood Lodge Dellroy.
Descent from 15,007 ft asl to 2,170 ft asl took 10 minutes and covered 47 nm, beginning about 3 miles west of Old Washington.
Final approach to runway 36R at KCVG Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport began with a descent from 1,319 ft agl to 41 ft agl in 96 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, and wings level; speed was not met. The landing gear was lowered at 1,463 ft agl at 187 kt, and flap position 4 was selected at 637 ft agl at 154 kt.
Landing on runway 36R, which is 9,991 ft long, occurred with a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 115 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown was 748 ft down the runway at 108 kt, with a fair rate of minus 251 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly off centreline by 23 ft. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 2,553 ft, 26 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at the airport was 59 °F with wind 2 kt from 270°, giving a 0 kt headwind and 2 kt crosswind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 329 nm in 60 minutes and used 0 lb of fuel.
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