Originally Posted by
increasedescent
'training wheels' is he not refering to a situation where the cloud base is above the MDA for a straight in approach, but below the MDA for a circling approach? Thus in your example if you continued down the ILS, or your GP for the LLZ to the circling MDA, you would not be visual therefore unable to circle?
This is the
Essendon 26 ILS approach chart. Circling MDA is 1010 ft. ILS minima is 590 ft. To conduct a circling approach from the ILS, you need to be visual at 1010 ft and then break off the ILS there for a circle to land.