BOAC
I read your comment as 'apart from when the wind is northerly, the circle onto 36 will be used'!!!
I see what you mean now.
that procedure is not in my current book nor in BA's book
What, are you saying that you cannot do a G/A into a visual circuit? Are you saying that if you went around when visual you would ALWAYS have to fly a full instrument missed approach procedure or take radar vectors to have another go?
I am only talking about a visual circuit, just like you did to get your type rating!!! Our CMF brief mentions that CMF ATC may expect this if you go around off runway 18, obviously only if you can stay below cloud! My point was that they had somebody coming down the ILS behind me (about 4 miles), at night, so I can only assume that they would expect me to go into a visual left hand pattern if I went around (but not something I would consider in the dark, hence my earlier comment that I have put it back into my Fleet Office's hands). We are not permitted to do night visual circuits in my company, only descend to MSA, then get within the defined circling area when we may descend to circling minima and perform a circling manoeuvre to land. The scenario I mention does not fit this criteria as we would not be starting off above circling minima necessarily.
PP