Pontious & Goblin, I believe we're on the same page. Apologies for perhaps over-zealous reply.... Flown with too many minimalist guys recently where near enough seems to be good enough, so again, apologies.
Here's a former post on these differences:
Circling Man' Area [Archive] - PPRuNe Forums
And this as well where the Air China crash is mentioned with respect to these procedures:
SKYbrary - Circling Approach - difference between ICAO PANS-OPS and US TERPS
Jeep charts simply state at the bottom left of the chart TERPS or PANS OPS. So you need to know these differences & limits, I believe. Applying PANS OPS circling radius to a TERPS circling approach is going to hurt you.
Last comment on rwy markings: knowing the distance between rwy edge lights & counting them from a lined up position enabled me many more take offs than simply relying on METARS. In those hour building days knowing & applying it kept me in a job.
Cheers guys...
