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Old 27th Oct 2018, 08:09
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When you are circling to land you can have the top of the tail in the cloud base at circling altitude. You need the required visibility and be able to keep the runway in site. You must remain within the circling area, 4.2nm for CAT C, 5.28NM for CAT D.

In EASA, to fly a visual approach you need to be VMC. That requires 1000' clear of cloud vertically and 1500M horizontally. A circling approach and a visual approach are fundamentally different.

You can't just fly an instrument approach to one runway (to that approaches minima) then declare "visual" and self manoeuvre to land on the opposite end.

If you took this argument to extremes, you could decide that you'll fly to CAT 1 minima, declare visual at 250' AGL and then call it a visual and fly a low level circuit to the other end.

There is no circling minima on the RNAV 35 procedure. Unless you are able to maintain VMC (as above), the only option is to fly one of the other approaches to its associated circling minima.

Simples.
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