Visual approach at night
Sorry to thread-hijack but something I overheard recently made me wonder.
On a fine night, Melbourne Approach and an Eastern -8 spent a long and laborious process negotiating a visual approach to 09.
I think the crew requested "Request visual approach once established in the circling area"
Melbourne: "Confirm requesting visual approach once established in the circling aread"
-8: "affirm"
Mel: "Eastern... Once established in the circling area cleared visual approach runway 09"
-8: "once established in the circling area, visual approach 09"
My question/point is: Why all the malarky about 'once established in the circling area'? It was night time so the only time descent is allowed below MSA/MVA is inside the circling area - why go to so much trouble to spell it out again and again?
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Last edited by UnderneathTheRadar; 5th Oct 2006 at 03:03.
Reason: spelling/gramma