Originally Posted by
Bleve
This incident reinforces advice given to me years ago by a wise old Captain: ‘Never report visual to ATC in the USA’. His reasoning was that: ‘If you report visual and they clear you for a visual approach, YOU are now responsible for separation.’ ‘Are you 100% sure the aircraft you see is the aircraft ATC are referring to?’ By not reporting visual, ATC maintains responsibility for separation.
do you mean; don’t report the ‘field in sight’? Because that is the prompt before giving you the visual usually.
either way, even if they give it to you, you can always say, ‘negative, requests vectors for the Ils..’