Descent below MDA -- what would you do?

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:39:15 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

Ron Rosenfeld wrote:
How does it improve the legal situation to cancel IFR when you are still
IMC? (You mentioned visibility of 2 1/2 miles).

I my original post, I said something like "reports of 2-1/2 to 4, assume
2-1/2". In a followup, I asked people to ignore that assumption and
consider accept the possibility that it might be 3. My apologies if I
confused the issue with this pair of contradictory statements.

I confuse easily these days g.

But assuming you were legal to cancel IFR, and wanted to do so, could you
not contact FSS through one of the relatively close VOR's, and cancel that
way? Or are they, too, out of radio reception range at that altitude? I
note HUO or CMK might be within range.


On 2 1/2 mile final in such conditions I'm not going to be trying to get through to FSS. ATC maybe, since
they're frequency is still on my "flip-flop".

But then again if I'm on 2 1/2 mile final and the visibility is 3 miles (VFR), then I can see the runway, so
yeah, I'm gonna come down and land... Conversely, if I can't see the runway then I am concluding that the
visibility is not 3 miles
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Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ