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On Mar 13, 7:15 am, Sam Spade wrote:

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Repeating myself: if you have 17 in sight a mile or two prior to the
MDA why would you not align yourself with the runway and descend
straight ahead in a normal descent for landing?


Ummm it doesn't line up with the 137 radial should for some reason I
do have to go missed, deer on the runway, departing plane not
necessarily under ATC control. Do you even fly at uncontrolled
airports? I wonder if you ask a question of this nature.

Nor what you suggest is a standard entry into an uncontrolled airport
per AIM.

This is actually getting funny.

Okay, at an uncontrolled airport like KMBO you certainly have the
election to hold MDA until the MAP, then (using Runway 17) turn
downwind, base, and final. And, as you roll out on final and descend
below 840 (514) the runway is now immune from a deer running out on it,
or an airplane taking the runway without a CTAF announcement?

To save a message slot about holding MDA at airports with operating
control towers. Have you ever read this in the AIM?

c. Straight-in Minimums are shown on the IAP when the final approach
course is within 30 degrees of the runway alignment (15 degrees for GPS
IAPs) and a normal descent can be made from the IFR altitude shown on
the IAP to the runway surface. When either the normal rate of descent or
the runway alignment factor of 30 degrees (15 degrees for GPS IAPs) is
exceeded, a straight-in minimum is not published and a circling minimum
applies. The fact that a straight-in minimum is not published does not
preclude pilots from landing straight-in if they have the active runway
in sight and have sufficient time to make a normal approach for landing.
Under such conditions and when ATC has cleared them for landing on that
runway, pilots are not expected to circle even though only circling
minimums are published. If they desire to circle, they should advise ATC.