Originally Posted by
sonicbum
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.
Why not? If the runway is in sight and you are too high, what is your plan?