"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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On the most recent Pilots Audio Update, the narrator was talking about a
time when fog covered half the airport, but he could see the runway he was
going to land on, but because the control tower was on the foggy half of
the airport, they wouldn't approve a visual approach. He was being
vectored all around, and thought it ironic that he never lost sight of the
runway. Could he had gotten a contact approach if he'd asked for it?


He could if the reported ground visibility was at least one mile and an
instrument approach procedure for the airport had been published and was
functioning.