Originally Posted by
oggers
So tell me why this guy is wrong:
He could be, against the EASA rules. Which BTW prescribe an immediate G/A upon reaching what the US calls DDA.
Though I would say, by your description of FIG 4, that the manoeuvre is NOT in disagreement. If you overfly the runway and bank for downwind, just by looking down you could be able to see the inside of the airport fence still.
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Sorry to muddy the waters a bit more even: the does the "runway environment" in circle-to-land EASA frame, have a definition? I seem to remember it actually does, and "inside airport fence" I just wrote above does not suffice.