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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 35 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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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 47 ft, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 50 ft.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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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 45 kt FAST on the reference speed of 109 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 5,023 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,118 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 29 at KMSY Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 29, the Cessna 750 Citation X accelerated to a liftoff speed of 144 kt and left the ground after traveling 2,025 ft, which represented 21 % of the runway; ambient temperature was 62 °F with a wind of 2 kt from 270 °, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
The climb began 1 mile west of Kenner, Louisiana, and the aircraft rose from 1,077 ft asl to 15,002 ft asl, an increase of 13,925 ft, in 6 minutes while covering 33 nm.
Level cruise commenced 4 miles south of the 3LA2 Southern Natural Gas Co. Seaplane Base Lacombe, Louisiana, and persisted for 27 minutes, during which 197 nm were flown.
Descent was initiated 4 miles northeast of 0J4 Florala Muni, Alabama, with the airplane descending from 14,994 ft asl to 1,761 ft asl, a decrease of 13,233 ft, in 11 minutes and over a distance of 54 nm.
The final approach to runway 32 at KTOI Troy Municipal Airport was flown from the southeast, on a heading of 323.0 °, at 4 nm and 1,347 ft agl.
Landing on runway 32 was achieved with a threshold speed of 107 kt; touchdown occurred at 100 kt, 1,078 ft down the runway, with a vertical speed of minus 188 fpm and a touchdown point offset 39 ft from the centreline. Local conditions were 59 °F, wind 3 kt from 270 °, cross-wind 2 kt and head-wind 2 kt. The total landing distance measured 2,347 ft, representing 47 % of the runway length of 4,993 ft.
Rollout alignment was noted as slightly misaligned by 46 ft from the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 289 nm, took 49, and used 0 lbs of fuel.
The final approach to runway 32 was flown on a heading of 323.0° from the south-east, intercepting the final at 4 nm and 1,347 ft agl. Ambient temperature was 59 °F with a wind of 3 kt from 270°, including a 2 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt headwind component.
Threshold height was reported as good and the aircraft crossed the threshold at 107 kt, noted as a little below the target speed. The flare was executed from the appropriate height, transitioning to touchdown.
Touchdown occurred 1,078 ft down the runway at a speed of 100 kt and a vertical rate of minus 188 fpm, both judged good. The touchdown point was misaligned by 39 ft from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 2,347 ft, representing 47 % of the 4,993-ft runway.
During rollout the aircraft remained slightly off centreline, with a measured deviation of 46 ft from the centreline.
Refine the approach to achieve the published threshold speed more precisely and focus on centreline tracking to reduce the 30-plus-foot deviations observed at touchdown and rollout. Maintaining the aim point near 1,000 ft down the runway will help keep the landing distance well within runway limits.
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