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Newps wrote in message news:ol2ec.8025$wP1.27020@attbi_s54...
You must either see the airport or the preceding aircraft. In the real world it is only a tiny percentage of aircraft that get a visual approach and don't have the airport in sight but are following another aircraft. We're not following another aircraft. Here in Billings we give a lot of visual approach clearances on initial contact because the pilot calls the airport in sight 40 miles out. (wolf whistle) Nice. Here in the midwest, we get a lot of summer wx where there's not a cloud in the sky and the vis is nominally VFR -- at least you can make out airports which are 3 miles away by GPS. But it's really flight by reference to instruments. The forward vis is nil. And once one starts a descent, the radius shrinks. Practically speaking, I'm not going to see the airport until I'm practically flying over it, yet there's no question whatsoever about my ability to land there under VFR. Are you saying that the center, for no apparent reason, is just giving you a visual approach clearance without you first calling the airport in sight? The latter (vis approach clearance without me first calling the airport in sight), but not the former. At the MIA, both radar and radio reception will be tenuous -- and at an airport with no IAP there's no requirement to assure radio reception at a given altitude as there is with, for example, a MAHP. Operationally, there are several apparent reasons why it's probably helpful to go ahead and issue the clearance. Cheers, Sydney |
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