re circling approaches, only the sink rate is allowed to deviate from the NORMAL stabilized parameters, and only till 500' (which you are allowed on VMC anyway), plus you gotta do a specific brief on that.
Specific briefing for this and that...rubbish.
Circling approaches in our ops manual are very clearly laid out, and line pilots are expected to conform.
And...they do.
The 500 hours guys...and the 3000 hour Senior First Officer types.
Rocket science, it ain't.
And besides...el Capitan is there to correct for any difficiencies on the part of the younger folks.
We use the 'quiet concept FD' scenario...the less said, the better.
This forces the younger guys to actually
read and understand the ops manual, and fly accordingly.
And...they
do. OMG, what an absolute surprise....shock, horror.
