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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 169 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 54 kt fast at 223 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 169 kt in the climb
Arrival
Add power on final to cross the threshold at 123 kt, correcting the speed before the flare begins.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 24 kt below the 123 kt target, and the flare that followed raised the nose only 2° with little of the sink taken out. Shallow, underpowered approaches like this usually carry through into a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 123 kt at the threshold
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 7,991 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 133 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 25R at KENW Kenosha Regional Airport in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 25R, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 142 kt and departed after a ground run of 2,841 ft, representing 43 % of the runway length; ambient temperature was 62 °F with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile east of WI95 Binzel Airport, with the aircraft ascending from 1,661 ft asl to 12,012 ft asl, a gain of 10,351 ft achieved in 6 minutes while covering 26 nm.
The first cruise segment began overhead 3CK Lake In The Hills, lasting 13 minutes and extending 88 nm at level flight.
Descent started about 1 mile southwest of 82IL Mercyhealth System-Riverside Heliport, with altitude decreasing from 12,003 ft asl to 3,341 ft asl, a loss of 8,661 ft in 7 minutes over a distance of 32 nm.
A second level cruise was initiated 2 miles northeast of 1IL9 Holland Field, persisting for 4 minutes and covering 12 nm.
On final approach to runway 02 at KBMI Central Illinois Regional Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,306 ft agl to 25 ft agl in 101 seconds and was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 02 was executed with a threshold speed of 99 kt, a touchdown distance of 123 ft, a touchdown speed of 98 kt and a hard touchdown rate of minus 426 fpm; the touchdown point was offset 45 ft from the centreline, and local conditions were 59 °F temperature, 2 kt wind from 270°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
The rollout required a total landing distance of 1,576 ft, equivalent to 20 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s alignment during rollout was misaligned 54 ft from the centreline.
Taxi-in to the parking area took 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 166 nm, lasted 37 minutes and consumed 128 lb of fuel.
The Cessna 750 Citation X approached runway 02 at KBMI Central Illinois Regional Airport in a stabilised configuration at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and speed all within limits, and completed a descent from 1,306 ft AGL to 25 ft AGL in 101 seconds.
At threshold the aircraft’s speed was a little below target at 99 kt, the threshold height was good, and the aircraft touched down 123 ft from the runway threshold with a touchdown speed of 98 kt, both judged good.
The touchdown was hard, with a vertical rate of minus 426 fpm, and the touchdown point was misaligned by 45 ft from the centreline; total landing distance was 1,576 ft, representing 20 % of the 7,991-ft runway, under temperature 59 °F, wind 2 kt from 270°, crosswind 2 kt and tailwind 1 kt.
During rollout the aircraft remained misaligned, drifting 54 ft from the centreline.
Refine lateral alignment techniques to reduce the 45-ft and 54-ft deviations observed at touchdown and during rollout, and adjust flare timing to soften the hard touchdown rate of minus 426 fpm.
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