"John R Weiss" wrote in message
news:36gUb.176434$sv6.932027@attbi_s52...

Ummm... The original referred directly to the lack of visible horizon
during an
instrument approach. The post was:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Garrison"
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.ifr
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:11 PM
Subject: Logging approaches


I had a 'first' last week, and I am looking for other peoples thoughts
on
this one. It was my first (I believe) loggable instrument approach in
what
was legally VMC. I was flying from the San Francisco bay area down to
Burbank. The reported conditions were sky clear, visibility 4 miles in
haze,
with the ILS 8 in use, no mention of visual approaches. The visibility
part
was right, from about 4,000 feet down to the surface there was about 4
miles
visibility based on when the runway appeared. I could see the ground
below
just fine the whole time, but looking forward there was no visible
horizon.

I considered the approach loggable because:
1) navigation aids were required to find the airport
2) There was no visible horizon so the attitude indicator was
required
to identify and maintain the desired aircraft attitude.

Any differing opinions on this one?


Yeah, I read it. Threads evolve.