Flight instructor reported that while conducting a circle-to-land maneuver; there was not adequate s...

Attributes
ACN	1702604
Time
Date	201911
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 175 Flight Crew Total 575 Flight Crew Type 450
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Miss Distance	Horizontal 5000 Vertical 500

Narrative:

We were flying the VOR ZZZ into ZZZ. Upon final approach fix inbound (about 3 miles east of the airport); aircraft X was on a relatively short final to runway xx. Aircraft X asked what our intentions were and I informed them over the CTAF we were planning on circling to land runway xx. Our circle to land consisted of us crossing midfield and join a left downwind; base; and final for runway xx. I decided that we had enough separation to continue the approach as airplane X landed on runway xx. However; upon reviewing my decisions I realize that our continuation of the approach made it difficult for aircraft X to go missed/do a go around had they needed too. In the future; I will plan enough space on my practice approaches to allow preceding aircraft to have the option to go around and not force another aircraft to only have one option of landing. While there was no immediate collision hazard that occurred; had the pilot of aircraft X needed to go-around a collision hazard may have been present.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Flight Instructor reported that while conducting a circle-to-land maneuver; there was not adequate spacing from a landing aircraft to allow a go-around if necessary.

Narrative: We were flying the VOR ZZZ into ZZZ. Upon Final Approach fix inbound (about 3 miles east of the airport); Aircraft X was on a relatively short final to Runway XX. Aircraft X asked what our intentions were and I informed them over the CTAF we were planning on circling to land Runway XX. Our circle to land consisted of us crossing midfield and join a left downwind; base; and final for Runway XX. I decided that we had enough separation to continue the approach as Airplane X landed on Runway XX. However; upon reviewing my decisions I realize that our continuation of the approach made it difficult for Aircraft X to go missed/do a go around had they needed too. In the future; I will plan enough space on my practice approaches to allow preceding aircraft to have the option to go around and not force another aircraft to only have one option of landing. While there was no immediate collision hazard that occurred; had the pilot of Aircraft X needed to go-around a collision hazard may have been present.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Flight instructor reported that while conducting a circle-to-land maneuver; there was not adequate spacing from a landing aircraft to allow a go-around if necessary.