Originally Posted by
FlyingStone
If you have a failure that increases your approach speed and you are thinking whether you should increase your circling minima due to higher approach speed, you are asking yourself the wrong question.
The real question should be: is circling with some (I'm guessing) flight controls problem really the best option that I have available? Most of the time, the answer will be no.
I raise this issue with our SIM department every time. Unfortunately, I don't get to write the profile, but agree it's encouraging negative training. I guess their way to assess how you approach the situation.
We have Cat E published and if I'm ever above 163 Kt in final approach config, that's what I use.
Also worth noting the other speed limits for the various segments of the approach apply too as part of terps procedure design, it's not just about finals.
The limits are there. It's published you can move up the category but not down. Will try to find the official reference (may be terps/pans ops specific though )