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Offline Jonathan_tcu

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Open mics
« Reply #25 on: August 04, 2005, 11:14:01 AM »
Quote from: drl5555
Kneecaps, you're mostly correct with the different types of instrument approaches, but there's also something called a "Visual Approach." A visual approach is used in good weather conditions, and can only be assigned to IFR aircraft with either the airport or the traffic they're following in sight. A pilot "cleared for the visual" can decide what pattern to make and when to initiate a descent to the airport. This expedites traffic flow to an airport because there is no need to vector aircraft onto the localizer. So, in good  weather conditions a visual approach is most often used, unless other circumstances prevail.


There is a problem with approving visual approaches from ATC in non-radar environments.  I've posted this before, where ATC is no longer able to allow aircraft w/ visual approaches and I often here * I can't see you so I can't approve a visual, but I can approve a contact approach*