Originally Posted by
oggers
The whole point of this thread is the legality of the manoeuvre itself. You either have the weather minimums or you don't, that is not in question.
There are IAPs where you have to circle back if the wind favours what would otherwise be the straight-in runway, due to the approach profile being too steep. Aspen was mentioned, here is another one:
If you were not permitted to land on 02 from this approach there would simply be a note stating it was Not Authorised. But you are permitted to land on 02. This procedure has been approved. The manoeuvre is legal.
this is irrelevant with respect to the OP’s question. Again, the above procedure is not a straight in approach and has logically only circling minimum. You can’t fly a straight in approach (in terms of offset and grandient) for runway XX and then circle for that same runway, it does not make any sense.