Phrase "landing runway" vs. "cleared to land"

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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Hamish Reid" wrote in message
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He will be and say where his instruments indicate him to be.


How so?


Read FAA-H-8083-15 and FAA-H-8261-1A

I'll take that as a tacit admission that you know as well as I do that
*any* position report at an uncontrolled field should be regarded with
skepticism, regardless of whether it's done using instruments or
estimated visually.

Rather than knowing "exactly where he is" when you "hear another pilot
use 'IFR terminology' to describe his position (your words), given the
mistakes pilots (even instrumented-rated pilots) and / or controllers
make, and the various errors possible in any instrument system, you
really only have some idea where he says he is. Having more than once
heard confident and wrong position reports on CTAF from (presumably)
instrument-rated pilots on practice approaches, maybe I'm just a little
less credulous than you...

Hamish