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28th Mar 2019, 20:00

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Originally Posted by FullWings

Is EU-OPS a thing anymore? Our manuals are EASA-IR...

I fly for an EASA operator and we most definitely can level off and fly to the MAPt *on an instrument approach planning to circle-to-land*.

Ok, I'll try again. If You are flying a, let's say, VOR APP for runway 16 with circling 34, You will level off at the circling MDA and fly the circuit, we are all happy with that. What You can't do if You are flying a CDFA is level off somewhere above the VOR MDA, reach the MAPt and then dive down to land on runway 16 (aside from the fact that You will probably bust all kind of stabilisation gates). Having said that, You can't fly a VOR APP for runway 16 and then circle for... runway 16 ! There is no legal provision to back up such a decision. You can fly either the published IAP (VOR in our scenario) or fly a visual.

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