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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 17°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Add power on final to hold 121 kt across the threshold.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 102 kt, 19 kt below VREF, and low energy like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown at 193 fpm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 121 kt at the threshold
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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 37.6 kt FAST on the reference speed of 121 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 6,994 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 37 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 31 at KBIS Bismarck Municipal Airport, a movement that took 5 minutes and covered 1 nm.
Takeoff was performed on runway 31. The aircraft used 4,121 ft of runway, which was 47 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 134 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 64 °F, wind 2 kt from 269°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 25 seconds, averaging 1,609 fpm and reaching 200 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 2,431 ft asl to 34,308 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 79 nm and beginning 1 mile south of Bismarck.
The aircraft levelled at 35,000 ft asl for 57 minutes, covering 496 nm, beginning 6 miles south-west of Ashley.
Descent began from 34,999 ft asl to 1,717 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 118 nm, starting 1 mile north of KHAL Hamilton Airport.
During final approach to runway 26L at KSUS Spirit of St Louis Airport, the descent from 1,303 ft agl to 13 ft agl took 105 seconds. Stabilisation checks were performed at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. The checks were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate. Configuration changes occurred with landing gear down at 1,537 ft agl and 224 kt, and final flap position 4 at 687 ft agl and 147 kt.
Landing was made on runway 26L, which is 6,994 ft long. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was a little below target at 102 kt. The flare was described as a perfect landing flare. Touchdown occurred 36 ft down the runway at 101 kt with a rate of -193 fpm; runway touchdown alignment was perfect and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,635 ft, representing 23 % of the runway. Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 36 ft from the centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 59 °F, wind 2 kt from 270°, with 0 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 701 nm in 97 minutes and used 314 lb of fuel.
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