Originally Posted by
Smott999
Wow, they weren't kidding when they called it a circle to land.
An interesting detail from the story linked above:
Apparently, this was Capt Sultan’s fifth flight of the day, and he had just sent in his resignation to the US-Bangla management in order to join a Gulf airline.
Originally Posted by
portmanteau
VFR refers to the rules of flight and VMC refers to the the weather conditions. There is no chance that one "may mean" the other. That's a red herring you are introducing.
I disagree. I've certainly heard VFR used to mean in visual conditions on more than one occasion. From context I think VFR was probably used by the tower controller to mean visual conditions in this case.