Mxsmanic wrote:


I've been cleared for a visual approach (said exactly that way "cleared for
the visual approach") in the past after being descended to a few thousand feet
above the field and while moving roughly in a downwind pattern, but only after
I've confirmed that I have the field in sight. So this procedure mystified
me.

How did you do that when you don't have a airman's certificate? ...some
flight simulator game?