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Old 11th Nov 2007, 13:42
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Not on this side of the pond! Runway directions need to be at least 30 deg apart to qualify.
I still don't agree.

PANS-OPS Vol 2 Part I Section 4 Ch 5
5.2.3 Circling approach
The circling approach contains the visual phase of flight after completing an instrument approach, to bring an aircraft into position for landing on a runway that for operational reasons is not suitably located for straight-in approach. In addition, when the final approach track alignment or the descent gradient does not meet the criteria for a straight-in landing, only a circling approach shall be authorized and the track alignment should ideally he made to the centre of the landing area.


If the landing runway direction is more than 30 degrees off the IAP runway direction, the final approach track alignment criteria are not met and only circling approaches are permitted. But that doesn't mean that it's the only circumstance in which a circling approach is required.

In the case of a parallel landing runway separated by more than 150 m, the following criterion comes into play:

5.2.2.2 Final approach with track not intersecting the extended runway centre line. A final approach which does not intersect the extended centre line of the runway (theta equal to or less than 5 degrees) may also he established, provided such track lies within 150 m laterally of the extended runway centre line at a distance of 1 400 m outward from the runway threshold (see Figure 1-4-5-1).

The criterion is clearly not met, and the only approach permitted to the parallel runway is a circling approach.

A swingover manoeuvre is either a circling approach or a visual approach.
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