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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 169 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 32 kt fast at 201 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 169 kt in the climb
Arrival
Add power on final to cross the threshold at 119 kt, correcting the speed before the flare begins.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 17 kt below the 119 kt target, and the flare that followed raised the nose only 2.8° with little of the sink taken out. Shallow, underpowered approaches like this usually carry through into a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 119 kt at the threshold
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 8,989 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 643 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 KSUS for 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Takeoff was on runway 26L. The aircraft used 2,822 ft of runway, about 40 % of the available length, and rotated at 135 kt. Local weather was 64 °F with wind 3 kt from 269°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 30 seconds, averaging 1,689 fpm and reaching 212 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 1,497 ft asl to 35,010 ft asl in 14 minutes, covering 91 nm, beginning about 1 mile west of KSUS.
Level flight was held at 35,000 ft asl for 53 minutes, covering 470 nm, beginning about 3 miles east of Brownstown.
Descent began at 34,995 ft asl and proceeded to 1,581 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 117 nm, starting 6 miles north-west of Hyndman, with a brief level-off at 3,400 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 31 at KMDT started from 1,316 ft agl and descended to 31 ft agl in 116 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 1,418 ft agl at 182 kt; the final flap position 4 was selected at 636 ft agl at 128 kt.
Landing was on runway 31, which is 8,989 ft long. The threshold speed was slightly below target at 102 kt. The flare was described as fair, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred at 96 kt, 642 ft down the runway, with a firm rate of minus 340 fpm. The touchdown point was 29 ft off the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 2,200 ft, 24 % of the runway, and the rollout left the aircraft 40 ft off the centreline. Local weather at KMDT was 61 °F with wind 3 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area for 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 685 nm in 95 minutes and used 304 lb of fuel.
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