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Old 5th Apr 2009, 23:38
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bubbers44
 
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For the last seven years of my career at then the largest carrier 90% of my approaches were to a circle to land at TGU in Honduras. In 2003 I retired because I was turning 60 but to this day they do the same approach. We had no problem with the B757 then and am sure it isn't more difficult now. TGU is one of the most challenging landings circling but just requires paying attention and not landing long. Hopefully we are not going to eliminate circling approaches because the automation can't handle it. Boeing doesn't have a problem with it. Does someone else ?
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