Landing zone
Area where aircraft can land; especially for vertical landings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about military landing zones. For hard disc drives, see HDD LZ. For rocket landing zones, see rocket landing pad. For other uses, see Landing zone (disambiguation).
In military terminology a landing zone (LZ) is an area where aircraft can land.
In the United States military, a landing zone is the actual point where aircraft, especially helicopters, land (equivalent to the commonwealth landing point.)[1]
In commonwealth militaries, a landing zone is the cartographic (numeric) zone in which the landing is going to take place (e.g., a valley). The landing area is the area in which the landing is going to take place (e.g., the field where the aircraft are to land). The landing point is the actual point on which aircraft are going to land (e.g., a point of the field). Each aircraft has a different landing point.