I am an airbus pilot of a very similar type. Thrust was reduced because a pilot selected 0000 in the fcu and the athr tried to achieve this. There were numerous selections made on the fcu from when the aircraft became established on the ILS from GS LOC to V/S H/Sel and back to GS LOC. There appeared to be confusion as to how they were going to manage the automatics and fly the circle procedure evidenced by the amount of changes in altitude selected in the FCU. There also appears to be a lot of effort into trying to make an approach off the ILS and avoid the circle manoeuvre. I think that they became totally confused and descended very low on the downwind leg and then failed to manage the recovery to controlled safe flight.
What was the circling minima for this approach?
Last edited by tubby linton; 29th Jun 2013 at 13:38.