Originally Posted by
763 jock
In EASA, to fly a visual approach you need to be VMC. That requires 1000' clear of cloud vertically and 1500M horizontally. A circling approach and a visual approach are fundamentally different.
OK, now I'm confused, because up the thread, someone said that a visual was legal as long as the visibility was 800m, with no ceiling requirements. The 800 m and no ceiling requirements sounds more like the US minimums tor a Contact approach, (1/2 SM vis) which is a different animal than a visual approach. which requires 1000 ft sealing and 3 sm vis in the US