Cleared for the ILS 16 or circle to land 34 question?

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From: Doug ]
Posted At: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:47 AM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Cleared for the ILS 16 or circle to land 34 question?
Subject: Cleared for the ILS 16 or circle to land 34 question?

In general you are not supposed to turn a botched ILS into a circle to
land. Go missed and come in again.

The question was about a LOC 16, not the ILS so the minimums would have
been higher. Also, the question was about legality not good operating
sense. ;-)

Since you are cleared for the approach, the airspace is yours until you
land, miss, or land harder. Assuming the MDA is at least 600' in a light
aircraft I'd probably be inclined to execute the 360 overhead - after
all, the old pattern altitudes used to be 800' and the 600' would keep
me above obstructions in the immediate vicinity.

Here's another good reason for not shooting LOCs into short fields.