Originally Posted by ForkTailedDrKiller
Or you can have the best of both worlds!
A continuous climbing turn onto downwind and square base and final legs!
And wouldn't that be a Bonanza for some.
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Sorry Doc, really bad pun)
I have never flown a circular circuit (except my first solo) but it seems to me that if you had a circular decending approach then the "circuit" is going to be messy. I am thinking of a Rate 1 turn. The faster the speed of the aircraft, the larger the circle (and greater bank angle of course). So, unless all aircraft in the circuit have the same approach speed, they will be all over the place on the base/final curve. With a square circuit it appears to me that separation would be easier to maintain and therefore a more orderly one.
Remember I haven't flown anything except what we have now so does what I say sound reasonable (assuming I have made an iota of sense) or am I babbling from a place where the sun don't shine.
