Summary: One of the problems with circling-to-land approaches is unstabilized approaches airplanes being too fast and too high at the end of the circling maneuver, said Richard Boll, a member of the NBAA Access Committee and chairman of the Airspace, Air Traffic and Flight Technologies Working Group. After almost 20 years of discussion, the FAA has started increasing the area of protected airspace devoted to circling approaches. This week's NBAA Flight Plan podcast has the story.
