Chapter 18: Landing

Question 1

What are land and hold short operations (LAHSO) and can we accept this clearance?

Answer 1

It’s when they tell you “cleared to land rwy 26, hold short of 22” assuming there’s a crossing runway of some sort on the airfield so you would have to safely bring your aircraft to a stop in that distance.
Cannot accept this clearance. Can passively participate by doing T&G while another aircraft is holding short of the runway.

Question 2

What is the min altitude to turn after a takeoff? What is the exception?

Answer 2

400’ AGL

Exception is pulling closed for VFR patterns

Question 3

How can you avoid potential tendency to duck under or fall prey to runway visual landing illusions?

Answer 3

Maintain composite cross-check with instrument glideslope indicator, VVI and altitude against visual cues

Question 4

What is a common duck-under situation?

Answer 4

When pilot attempts to land within first 500-1000’ of runway after breaking out of an overcast condition. Can result in high sink rates, undershoots, hard landings.

Question 5

Where can you find info about approach lighting systems?

Answer 5

FIH

Question 6

What do you need to circle?

Answer 6

Must be at or above circling MDA and within circling radius constraints.

Question 7

When requesting circling from an ASR, what should you tell the controller?

Answer 7

The category

Question 8

What does the negative C mean in the circling line on the plate? What is Cat E circling radius?

Answer 8

There is expanded circling approach area where the circling minima are not standard.
Standard for Cat E is 4.5 NM.

Question 9

What is a side-step maneuver?

Answer 9

Like a subset of circling but just a quick move over to a parallel runway.
To sidestep runways must be apart no more than 1200’ and must be published as a Sidestep, not a circle