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Old 14th Apr 2002, 14:42
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Carnage Matey!
 
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The problem with LAHSO is that one aircraft is cleared to LAHS of the intersection whilst another aircraft receives a take off or landing clearance for the other runway. Hence the only thing to prevent a catastrophic smash up at the intersection is your (or the other) aircrafts ability to stop as quickly as promised. Should you suffer a brake failure or otherwise, things are going to get very frightening very quickly. Furthermore if you both go around then you're going to get very close at some point as many airport do not publish seperate missed approach procedures for intersecting runways when LAHSO is in use. The UK CAA take a very dim view of LAHSO and my employer doesn't permit it at all.

To answer your questions though, LAHSO operations aren't really dependent on aircraft type but by your professional common sense. If you are unwilling to accept a LAHSO clearance then say so on first contact. If you do accept a clearance then infringe the runway intersection then I suggest praying would be a sensible course of action, whilst employing copious quantites of forward or reverse thrust to get out of it fast! And make sure everybody knows where you are!

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