Re the Avalon incident, I can't help thinking that if they briefed a circling approach to 36 and not the S-I ILS 18, we wouldn't be talking here. ATC of course did not make it easier for them to climb up to 3000. It appears that the issue is not one of lack of or insufficiency of training but sound judgement, and the problem is you can't train judgement like you train skills or tasks.
I stand to be corrected on the facts of the incident.