With a circular approach to a circular runway, aren't all winds cross winds (and, also, headwinds and tailwinds)?
All I'll say is if I was the head of the programming committee for the air transport association conference, I would invite the designer to keynote, as comic relief.
Even if they do, I don't see why it can't be done with an awareness system like the F-35 helmet. That would let you see the outline of the runway through arbitrary fog.
There is no special "rejected landing turn". You rise up just a bit, keep following the runway, and retry when you wish.
Because automated systems fail.
> Even if they do, I don't see why it can't be done with an awareness system like the F-35 helmet.
Because most aircraft aren't F-35s and expenses and fallible systems that are appropriate and sensible for combat aircraft that may have to operate in conditions in which civilian aviation would not aren't necessarily something you want to make civilian aviation dependent on in conditions in which, with sensible things like straight runways, it would not be.
Because a human driving the plane has a vested interest in surviving the landing.
A person who writes buggy landing software, or an operator "piloting" it from the ground can get another job if they fail.
This sort of thing works for planes too.
That might produce other problems for landing, though.
What you describe needlessly adds complication to the approach, which adds risk, which will certainly result in accidents and fatalities. It's just a bad idea, and there is a reason airport designers never considered this (it is not as if the idea of banked curved roadways is new).
Sorry as a pilot, I can say this is not just a bad idea, it is a lethally bad idea. A fun simulator challenge, but not something that will work in the real world. If you are doubtful, I would suggest you try circling around a point in IFR conditions within 50' lateral tolerance above a circular runway. Be sure to add zero visibility and a 10-20 knot cross wind to simulate doing so in the clouds above the runway as you descend.