Airport of the Month - Jackson Municipal, MJQ

At the Federal Aviation Administration, they have a long term love affair with acronyms. TORA is not the shortened version of a movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, nor is TODA a slightly dyslexic attempt at the same thing. The two are FAA acronyms which along with LDA define useable runway lengths. They mean "Take Off Runway Available," "Take Off Distance Available," and "Landing Distance Available." On a normal (fully useable) runway the numbers are all the same, but if there are displace thresholds "declared distances" apply which are the TORA, TODA and LDA. As usual the FAA clea...