Originally posted by AirRabbit:
Hi Screwballs - I'd be happy to describe how a circle-to-land maneuver should be conducted ... ... but, ... you're describing a theoretical, not a real, airport. As you would certainly recognize, having the information available on (a) plate is crucial to the performance of any such instrument approach - ...While the information you provided is relatively .... , a picture is worth 10,000 words. (edited for brevity)
...and that has now been provided to you, yet you still dodge the the answer. That fact can only make one wonder if your are who what you claim to be...
Instead you provided another meaningless anecdote about
simulators. A device developed to practice abnormal situation and procedures, for a specific aircraft type. It's in many respects very unrealistic. As another example during landing flare and touchdown.
Learning how to do a circling approach, is something which is done in a real aircraft, like learning how to flare or how to fly level looking at the nose of the aircraft and horizon. I.e. during basic pilots training, and for circling, instrument Rating training.
In EU we are allowed to train, aircraft type specific, procedural aspects of a circling in simulators, but the assumption is that the pilot undertaking such training, through his basic flight training, is capable of executing such maneuver in the first place. Knowledge about basic stick and rudder skills, hand eye co-ordination etc, must be obtained prior to entering the simulator in the first place.
Further experience in doing such a maneuver is obtained in the real aircraft, either during dedicated training (line training) or practiced during line operations (first officers learning from experienced captains).
If people has to learn how to fly a circling in a simulator, something is wrong in the MacAmerican system.