"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

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True, provided you cancel, or receive a clearance for a contact or visual
approach. Otherwise you must fly the IAP regardless of how good the
weather
might be (VMC, not VFR).


A visual approach is not an option when an instrument letdown is necessary.

Depends on how you define "when necessary," Steve. The FAA postion is that
"when necessary" is when the pilot is on an IFR flight plan and has not
received a clearance for a visual or contact, regardless of weather
conditions. It's in the AIM that I cited to someone else here.