Consider an aircraft cleared for a low approach as an arriving aircraft until it crosses what?

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Consider an aircraft cleared for a low approach as an arriving aircraft until it crosses what?

A low approach clearance lets an arriving aircraft fly the approach to the runway with a lower descent, but you aren’t cleared to land unless you’re given explicit landing clearance. That clearance ends when you cross the landing threshold, because crossing the threshold marks entering the runway environment and the point at which a landing clearance would be required to continue with a landing. From there, if you aren’t cleared to land, you’d either continue with a go-around or await further instructions. The boundary isn’t the approach end or the missed approach point, and landing requires its own clearance rather than being authorized by a low approach clearance.

A low approach clearance lets an arriving aircraft fly the approach to the runway with a lower descent, but you aren’t cleared to land unless you’re given explicit landing clearance. That clearance ends when you cross the landing threshold, because crossing the threshold marks entering the runway environment and the point at which a landing clearance would be required to continue with a landing. From there, if you aren’t cleared to land, you’d either continue with a go-around or await further instructions. The boundary isn’t the approach end or the missed approach point, and landing requires its own clearance rather than being authorized by a low approach clearance.

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