IREX, Bob Tait's book and MDA
Hi there,
In Bob Tait's IREX book there is a number of practice questions that are based on one same premise - if you were conducting a straight in approach by day and successfully broke out of the clouds at some height that is LOWER than the specified circling height, you can then abort the approach (for whatever reason) and join the circuit BELOW circling height.
The book refers to AIP ENR 1.5 par 1.7.3(e) to prove the point.
(There you will find that it's OK to decent below MDA, by day and within the circuit boundaries, and ... etc.)
Yet, two pages later [ENR 1.5 par 1.10.1(d)] AIR says:
A missed approach must be executed if: ...
d) a landing cannot be effected from a runway approach, unless a
circling approach can be conducted in weather conditionsequal to or better than those specified for circling;
So basically if you are below the clouds and below circling MDA - do missed approach ... I guess. Looks like the book is wrong ...
I sent an email to Bob asking to clarify, but he is probably busy - not responding ...
Can someone please tell me if I am missing something here?