LAHSO

Some towers may clear you to land and hold short. This is called LAHSO, for land and hold short operations. You land, then stop before a crossing runway, a taxiway, or another set point on your runway. There is no LAHSO at Salinas. Its diagram and its Chart Supplement entry show none.

Long Beach uses LAHSO on two runways. Its diagram prints LAHSO twice, each with an arrow to a dashed line across a runway. The Chart Supplement table gives the landing runway, the hold short point, and the available landing distance. Landing on Runway 26R, you hold short of Runway 12-30. You have 3,400 feet.

Landing on Runway 30, you hold short of Runway 8L-26R. You have 5,850 feet. Accept LAHSO only if your airplane can land and stop in that distance. At the hold short point, yellow hold lines cross the runway, like the lines where a taxiway meets a runway.

A red sign stands beside them. Some runways also have a row of pulsing white lights. If you accept, exit the runway before the lines, or stop at them. As a student pilot, do not accept a LAHSO clearance. The AIM says student pilots should not take part.

The pilot in command can always decline. Tell the tower right away. Next, closed areas, construction, and non-movement areas.