Earning an instrument and a type rating today still demands the applicant successfully fly a circling approach. Despite the FAA’s recent Advisory Circular (AC) 120-123 calling for an increased focus ...

The circling approach is way up there, maybe in the top spot, on most pilots lists of most risky instrument procedures. Were ingrained from about day three of our IFR training that the circling ...

The FAA plans to eliminate circling approaches where feasible to streamline the National Airspace System and transition to satellite-based navigation. The agency has published cancellation criteria ...

The FAA has revised its criteria for circling airspace, now considering altitude, which impacts true airspeed and turn radius, thus requiring more protected airspace. A direct consequence of these ...

The FAA is finalizing specific criteria to guide the identification and selection of appropriate circling procedures that can be considered for cancellation. These procedures include certain circling ...

Circling approaches are a necessary part of general aviation operations due to certain airport environments or situations like unfavorable winds. However, circling approaches present an increased risk ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 05, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FlightSafety International Inc. (FSI), a global leader in aviation training and simulation technology, today announced the launch of the industry's ...

We’re constantly warned about the inherent risks involved in flying circling approaches, and for good reason. Tom Horne worked at AOPA from the early 1980s until he retired from his role as AOPA Pilot ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Part 1, we discussed how there’s a significant difference between flying a circling approach in training and flying one in the real world. In the U.S., approaches are created using criteria ...