On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:53:16 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

If you stay at the MDA (as 91.175(c) requires), it's unlikely you will ever
see the runway, as it will quickly disappear under the nose of the
airplane. Your GPS is providing you VNAV guidance, and you are already
above the synthetic glide slope. You're well above the minimums for a
contact approach, but since you're out of radio contact, you can't ask for
one; your current clearance is for the GPS-22. Continuing your descent
below the MDA, but staying above the VNAV glideslope it technically not
legal, but seems like a "no harm, no foul" kind of violation.

If it was me, I would not descend below MDA.

I would descend to MDA, overfly the runway and join the landing pattern to
land. I looked at airnav.com but it didn't give the pattern altitude.

I am not familiar with the terrain, but the picture at airnav.com made it
seem like it would be a rather easy airport to spot being it's an open spot
in the forest of trees.

Allen