Circling approaches are certainly good sport in big aircraft. You both need to be well briefed about what you are going to do and how and you are going to fly the approach. Practice is certainly required which makes the latest change for LPC/OPC checks seem very strange, it is now only required once every 3 years in the sim. Anyone know if this is just us or does it apply to all JAA operators?. I know we don't so them very often but when you do it is demanding manoeuvre and I would like a crack at more often than every three years.
At the risk of opening a real can of worms, how about go-arounds from circling approaches? ie. what go-around do you fly from various stages of the approach. The CAA advice for this has changed several times in the last few years but whatever the rules say it is something you need to have a long hard think about before you shoot the approach to avoid other a/c flying the same approach (CFU for example, no help from ATC there I suspect).