Basic Airline Terminology Practice Test

Hold Short is used for?

A Command to line up on the runway. A request to accelerate before landing. An instruction to taxi onto the runway. An instruction to stop the aircraft before a runway or taxiway intersection until clearance is received.

Correct Answer:

An instruction to stop the aircraft before a runway or taxiway intersection until clearance is received.

Explanation:

Hold short means you stop at a designated hold point before entering a runway or crossing another taxiway, and you wait for explicit clearance to proceed. This protects aircraft on the runway from incursions and helps ATC sequence traffic safely. You’ll see hold-short markings at taxiway/runway intersections—the solid lines indicate where you must stop, and you may cross only when ATC gives you the go-ahead. This is different from instructions to line up on the runway or to accelerate before landing, which are not about stopping at a boundary but about entering or using the runway.

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