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1. You cannot roll your own visual approach. You must have a clearance
and the
weather conditions must permit it, as per the guidance in the AIM.

2. What you did is more like a contact approach, which is different from a
visual approach, both, the distinctions of which are well documented and
should
be part of your instrument pilot knowledge base.

3. Eventually, such early departures from the IAP not only violate 91.175,
they
can eventually result in clipping a hilltop, tree, or tower.


Nothing in his statement suggests he departed from the IAP.