Contact approach question

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:53:32 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

We were talking about cancelling the IFR clearance and proceeding VFR when
you piped up with this "you've got to fly the instrument procedure"
business. He's not flying a "home-made procedure", he's proceeding VFR.


That's not what I recall.

The original post started thusly:

"On the most recent Pilots Audio Update, the narrator was talking
about atime when fog covered half the airport, but he could see the
runway he wasgoing to land on, but because the control tower was on
the foggy half ofthe airport, they wouldn't approve a visual approach.
He was beingvectored all around, and thought it ironic that he never
lost sight of therunway. Could he had gotten a contact approach if
he'd asked for it?"

In other words, the field is IFR.

Newps then suggested that one could get an instrument approach and
then cut it short and land under IFR..).

I don't see where anyone suggested he land VFR. He can't.