Example circling maneuver at Memphis IAP, Tennessee. Author graphic. I used to think of the circle-to-land maneuver following an instrument approach as a necessary evil. We had a lot of airports to go ...

Circling approaches are 25 times less safe than straight-in approches and thus should be conducted only as a last resort. Pilot, safety expert, consultant, and aviation journalist Stuart “Kipp” Lau ...

A Learjet 35A crashed at Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey earlier this week and there has been lots of conjecture about what might have happened. Many of the comments have been made by far ...

The Airblue Airbus A321 that crashed yesterday, killing all 152 people on board, was doing a circling approach to runway 12 at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport. The "aircraft was ...

The pilots flying a Learjet 35A (similar to this one) to Teterboro on a gusty day didn’t properly brief nor fly the circle-to-land approach and crashed turning toward Runway 1, according to the NTSB. ...

ASPEN, Colo. — Confusion over how to best approach the tricky mountain valley airport here is of growing significance in the probe into the crash of a charter jet from Los Angeles that claimed 18 ...

Investigators cite catalogue of errors during Air China twinjet's fatal circling approach to Gimhae airport A catalogue of errors by the crew resulting from poor training and preparation by the ...

Example circling maneuver at Boire Field, New Hampshire. Author graphic In Part 1, we discussed the classic simulator circling check and the “Part 142” excuse. You might think the odds are stacked ...