LANDING SEQUENCE- The order in which aircraft are positioned for landing.
(See APPROACH SEQUENCE.)
LAST ASSIGNED ALTITUDE- The last altitude/flight level assigned by ATC and acknowledged by the pilot.
The basic landing sequence is varied, according to prevailing conditions (and there is a varying degree of alignment correction to allow for the crosswind component of the wind velocity), but it usually has four parts: ...
In real-world practice, distraction and preoccupation during the landing sequence play a vital role in the approximately 100 gear-up landing incidents that occurred each year in the United States between 1998 and 2003[1].
The part of a landing sequence or aerodrome circuit procedure in which the aircraft has made its final turn and is inbound to the active runway. Downwind is the segment of the circuit paralleling the runway and flown on a reciprocal heading.
 See also: Aircraft, Flight, Navigation, Landing, Pilot
  
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