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Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 169 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 46 kt fast at 215 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 169 kt in the climb
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 33 ft, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 46 ft.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed 44 kt FAST on the reference speed of 122 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 7,981 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,932 ft past the threshold — beyond 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 32 at KSTP Saint Paul Downtown Holman Field in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 32, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 143 kt and left the ground after traveling 2,724 ft, which represented 45 % of the runway length; ambient temperature was 62 °F with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile north of Saint Paul, with the jet climbing from 1,542 ft asl to 34,213 ft asl-a gain of 32,671 ft-over 13 minutes while covering 81 nm.
Level cruise began about 3 miles southwest of Cornell, Wisconsin, and was maintained for 63 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 555 nm.
Descent was initiated roughly 4 miles north of CMW4 Collins Field Madawaska, Ontario, with a reduction from 34,995 ft asl to 1,506 ft asl, a loss of 33,489 ft, accomplished in 18 minutes and spanning 110 nm.
The final approach to runway 25 at CYOW Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport was flown from the north east, on a heading of 237.0° at 3 nm and 1,135 ft agl; local conditions were 59 °F with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
Landing on runway 25, which is 7,981 ft long, occurred with a threshold height of 72 ft agl and a threshold speed of 120 kt; touchdown was recorded 539 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 111 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 296 fpm and a lateral deviation of 41 ft from the centreline, and the total landing roll measured 3,609 ft (45 % of runway).
Runway rollout alignment was noted to be offset by 50 ft from the centreline as the aircraft decelerated after touchdown.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 753 nm, required 104 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 334 lb of fuel.
The Cessna 750 Citation X entered the final approach to runway 25 at CYOW Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport from the north-east on a heading of 237.0° at 3 nm and 1,135 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.
During the threshold and flare phase the threshold height of 72 ft agl was well above target and the threshold speed of 120 kt was good.
Touchdown occurred 539 ft beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 111 kt, which was good, and a touchdown rate of minus 296 fpm, which was fair. The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 41 ft from the centreline.
The aircraft rolled out over a total landing distance of 3,609 ft, representing 45 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was misaligned by 50 ft from the centreline.
Minor refinements to lateral control are advised to reduce the 40-plus-foot centreline deviation observed at touchdown and the 50-foot deviation during rollout, thereby improving overall alignment while maintaining the current stabilised approach performance.
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