pointSixtyFive

THRESHOLD

Pilot/Controller Glossary with JO 7110.65BB, Change 3, effective July 9, 2026 · Official text on faa.gov

The beginning of that portion of the runway usable for landing.

See AIRPORT LIGHTING; DISPLACED THRESHOLD.

In the 7110.65

Used in 24 paragraphs of JO 7110.65BB.

  1. 3-1-5Vehicles/Equipment/Personnel Near/on Runways
  2. 3-1-8Low Level Wind Shear/Microburst Advisories
  3. 3-3-6Arresting System Operation
  4. 3-6-3Information Usage
  5. 3-6-4Safety Logic Alert Responses
  6. 3-7-2Taxi and Ground Movement Operations
  7. 3-7-6Precision Obstacle Free Zone (POFZ) and Final Approach Obstacle Clearance Surfaces (OCS)
  8. 3-8-2Touch‐and‐Go or Stop‐and‐Go or Low Approach
  9. 3-9-6Same Runway Separation
  10. 3-9-7Wake Turbulence Separation for Intersection Departures
  11. 3-10-3Same Runway Separation
  12. 3-10-4Intersecting Runway/Intersecting Flight Path Operations
  13. 3-10-6Anticipating Separation
  14. 3-12-3Arrival Separation
  15. 4-8-12Low Approach and Touch‐and‐Go
  16. 5-5-4Minima
  17. 5-7-3Speed Assignments
  18. 5-8-3Successive or Simultaneous Departures
  19. 5-8-5Departures and Arrivals on Parallel or Nonintersecting Diverging Runways
  20. 5-9-7Simultaneous Independent Approaches- Dual & Triple
  21. 5-9-9Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approaches (SOIA)
  22. 5-12-7Position Advisories
  23. 5-12-8Approach Guidance Termination
  24. 6-2-1Minima on Diverging Courses