Villas:
side step remains a visual manoeuvre even with a minima. Since the runway that is being side stepped into does not have a glide slope the side step minima is prescribed otherwise you will have to use circling minima which much higher. There is Jeppesen document below will clear your doubts.
1. LAX does not have circling minimums.
2. Runway 6L has a full ILS with approach lights just as 6R does. (see below.)
3. I have no doubt that an MDA of less than 400 feet above runway elevation with RVR of 5,000 is a visual maneuver in the same sense that landing straight in with a DA 0f 200 and RVR 2400 is a visual maneuver.
As the Jeppesen article states, I must have the "runway environment" in sight to sidestep from 6R to 6L or 6L to 6R. That could just be the approach lights without the runway in sight when I begin the sidestep maneuver at under 500 feet, msl.
