available landing distance

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available landing distance (ALD)

The portion of the runway available for landing and rollout for aircraft cleared for LAHSO (landing and hold-short operation). This distance is measured from the landing threshold to the hold-short point.

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For this procedure, you have sufficient information available to determine the available landing distance.

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The Airbus-patented ROPS computes minimum realistic in-flight landing and on-ground stopping distances while comparing them to available landing distances in real time.

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