JW411
I'm glad you posted what you did. there are such tragedies waiting for those pilots who have not had great instruction...or even bothered to read a few good aviation books.
In my 34 years of flying...I've started to '''fall ''' for illusions. But instruments, and thinking ahead can minimize that sort of thing.
I once flew a circling apch (vfr conditions) into midway/chicago IL, USA. My copilot was very new (though having some 5000 hours) and when I:
1. pre computed my headings for the maneuver
2. had her tune up the ILS to the runway we were circling to, even though we had used the VOR to get to the circling portion.
she said she had never heard of such things. I also declared a min altitude for each segment of the maneuver, promising to join final no lower than X feet at X dme.
I looked out the window only briefly, and after I had stablized on each segment of the circle.
YOU HAVE TO THINK to fly...let's all start thinking, shall we?