Originally Posted by
m39462
Indeed, Sled, that is good and sensible advice and may be codified by authorities that adopt PANS-OPS. Australia for example, whose AIP refers more than once to the circling area for the category of aircraft or a higher category where the limitations of the higher category are complied with. However, inasmuch as JPAirbus was not asking for advice but was asking what EASA documents had to say on this topic, I have to conclude they did not also make this eminently reasonable clarification.
m39462,
Agreed, but more than one here suggested that it was OK to fly the higher speed at the lower cat. minima,
UNLESS the RULES mandated otherwise.
Aeroplanes, and cumulus granatis don't know about "rules", EASA or otherwise, and in this day and age of the "Children of the Magenta Line", far too many believe that all the answers can be found in a book of legislation.
Indeed, the modern Australian regulatory practice is to try and identify in the greatest and minutest detail every action a pilot should take, frame a rules around it, and making it a criminal offense to make a mistake, or encounter a situation not covered by "the rools". The result is a rule book for bureaucratic micro-management so big that nobody knows everything that is there, and all to often there are contradictions that are never even sorted out in the all to prevalent legal proceedings.
And the resulting air safety outcomes are rather ordinary.
Tootle pip!!