Definition
A landing in which the aircraft touches down and is brought to a complete stop on the runway, as opposed to a touch-and-go or stop-and-go. A full-stop landing may be followed by taxiing clear of the runway or by a request to back-taxi, but it always involves the aircraft coming to a halt.
Plain English
A landing where you actually stop the airplane on the runway, instead of touching down and immediately taking off again.
Context Anchor
Seen in ATC instructions and traffic descriptions when a controller needs to know whether an aircraft will remain on the runway after landing or continue into another takeoff.
Why Pilots Care
Determines runway occupancy time and affects how controllers sequence other arrivals and departures.
Intuition Check
Full-stop does not always mean the aircraft must come to a complete stop on the runway. In this context, it means the landing is completed and the aircraft will not immediately take off again.
Example Sentence 1
Example Sentence 2
After the full-stop we taxied clear and switched to ground frequency.