In article , wrote:
You failed to tell us the method for closing your IFR flight plan once on the
ground. Do they give you a phone number? Do you have cell phone service on
the approach?

Well, it was a training flight; the plan (negotiated with the controller
ahead of time) was to go missed and call them in the hold for further
clearance.

The reason I ask about the phone is because you could have opted to cancel IFR
and then do whatever you wanted to do to get in and land.

Let's assume I still had radio contact with ATC 2 miles out and canceled at
that point. I could see how that would improve the legal picture, but it
certainly doesn't make it any safer. In fact, it could have made it worse.
As we came in, there was a guy on the ground holding short of the runway,
presumably waiting for his IFR release. Had I canceled, he might have been
released, not seen me swimming towards him in the haze, and gone out on the
runway right in front of me.