JAA VNAV Question
I was doing a Canadian proficiency check recently in a business jet sim. I gave the candidate a non-precision circling approach to a crossing runway. He used VNAV and the resulting circling ended up pretty tight. It worked out but it was more challenging than it had to be, in my opinion. In the debrief, I suggested that he would have had more room to maneuver if he had not used VNAV, had crossed the FAF at minimum altitude and descended promptly to MDA. He replied that he always uses VNAV where available because the JAA requires it. This was a TC ride so JAA policy was a non-issue but I was surprised to hear that. Does the JAA really mandate the use of VNAV, even on a circling approach?