"John Clonts" wrote in message
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I requested and received a Contact Approach on about my third flight after
receiving my instrument rating! I was being vectored "outbound" for the
ILS at
Temple. Clouds were scattered-to-broken at about 700 ft AGL, and
visibity was excellent. Once I saw that I could easily get under them and
get back to the field, I got the contact approach and it saved me about
10-15
miles of vectoring. Visual approach would not have worked because
of the cloud clearance. Well I guess you could say it would've "worked"
but it wouldn't have been legal


What is the legality? What's the required cloud clearance for a visual
approach?