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Circling, And Missing

Runway layouts can make it easy to get confused or forget the missed approach course when circling to land.

There's an airport out there somewhere in the haze, but the runway layout can be confusing when there are multiple choices, offsets, parallels and intersections.
Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

Tell me how to go missed from a circling approach,” the designated pilot examiner (DPE) asked the pilot during the oral portion of their checkride. The applicant didn’t know the answer, so the frustrated DPE asked a CFI standing nearby, who worked at the flight school, and got the same answer: “Huh?”

After the increasingly frustrated DPE asked the third unlucky nearby pilot, also a CFI, who said he didn’t know either, the DPE got angry that no one in the whole wide world seemed to know how to execute a missed approach while circling to land.

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