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Departure
Ease the back pressure on the yoke after rotation so the pitch change is smoother and g force stays lower.
What happened: During the initial climb the average g force reached 1.4 g, a high value for that phase.
Watch for: G meter: smooth, steady value in the normal climb band
Arrival
Add power on final to keep the approach speed at 115 kt rather than letting it decay before the threshold.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 105 kt, 10 kt below the target, and touchdown followed with a firm, high sink rate arrival. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries through to a firmer touchdown as the flare runs out of energy.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 115 kt at the threshold.
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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Taxi out
The roll
A slow rotation
The nose came up at 135 kt against the 131 kt rotate speed, and rose at 2.0° 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 6,477 ft runway.
Rolled from 215 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 16 ft at the widest, and lifted off 17 ft left. Airborne 45 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 912 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,797 ft of runway left; gear up at 11 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,150 fpm on average to 912 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.1 to 0.5 nm, then not again: slow from 0.5 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 60 ft below the slope.
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 17× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 70 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 29 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.1 nm (up to +47 kt), then inside the band to 0.5 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −10 kt).
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
The flare held the target profile well
The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.6° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 1,262 ft past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 44 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 43 ft. Touched down 1,262 ft in, 262 ft past 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 600 fpm at the flare to 250 fpm at 13 ft, then back up to 400 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° on the way down. Into the flare at 105 kt, 10 kt under the 115 kt approach speed, and 98 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 9,996 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 29 ft left of the centreline and drifted to 41 ft left on the rollout, back to 20 ft left by the end. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 0 kt head · 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 1,262 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 401 fpm arrival was firm.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 100 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 25 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 27 at KARR Aurora Municipal Airport in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 27, the aircraft used 2,957 ft of runway, representing 46 % of the available length, and lifted off at 150 kt. Ambient conditions were 61 °F with a 2-kt wind from 270°, providing a 2-kt headwind and no crosswind.
Climb commenced overhead KARR, rising from 1,087 ft asl to 24,909 ft asl, an altitude gain of 23,823 ft achieved in 11 minutes while covering 62 nm.
Level cruise began 4 nm northwest of 3LL2 Hammond-Henry Hospital Heliport and continued for 42 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 342 nm.
Descent started 2 nm northwest of Baxter Springs, Kansas, descending from 24,833 ft asl to 1,901 ft asl, a loss of 22,932 ft in 14 minutes and covering 76 nm.
The final approach to runway 18L at KTUL Tulsa International Airport was executed from the north on a heading of 183.0°, beginning 4 nm out at 1,261 ft agl. The aircraft descended from 1,305 ft agl to 97 ft agl in 110 seconds and met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing on runway 18L was completed with a threshold speed of 105 kt, a touchdown speed of 98 kt, and a touchdown distance of 1,260 ft. The touchdown rate was firm at minus 363 fpm, and the touchdown point was 29 ft off the centreline. Local weather reported 59 °F with a 2-kt wind from 270°, giving a 2-kt crosswind and no headwind. Total landing distance measured 2,567 ft, equivalent to 26 % of the runway length.
Runway rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 44 ft 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 490 nm, lasted 73 minutes, and consumed 0 lb of fuel.
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