Thanks again for your views.
Capt.MW, I well remember doing circling in the IOM in the F27 (Horrible turbulence with a Northerly wind I recall) and am very aware that many of our fraternity are called upon to do them regularly, which as I said, is probably why they have been brought into the LPC arena. I have, mentally at least, now suspended the 'test' bit of the approach once the chap or chappess has put the aircraft in the correct config, at the correct speed and at a sensible distance abeam the threshold. The rest of the approach is 'Training/Refresher'as far as I am concerned - and valuable as such.