Charted Visual Flight Procedures

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

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If I am flying a VOR approach to a Class D airport where the reported
weather is 800 overcast, visibility 2 miles, and the MDA is 700 feet HAT,
minimum vis 1 mile, and I become clear clouds at 750 feet, HAT, I
determine
that my flight visibility is 2.5 s.m., am I VMC or IMC as I pass through
400 feet,
HAT, on descent with all visual requirements of 91.175 being continuously
met?


IMC

Another thought to expand on my hypothetical stated above: Paragraph 251 of
TERPs deals with the obstacle clearance requirements for the visual segment of
the final approach segment; i.e. inside the DA point or inside the point where
descent is normally presumed to occur from MDA on a straight-in approach. The
title of the paragraph is Visual Segment of the Final Approach Segment.

That seems to support the fact that the FAA TERPS folks consider descent below
MDA or continuing of descent below DA to be a VMC flight operation.

This stuff perhaps is not as black and white as you seem to think it to be.