Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
But a visual approach becomes VFR and requires VMC doesn't it? With certain minima, a contact approach remains IFR.
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No.
An IFR flight making a visual approach on an airport with IFR approaches remains IFR.
In case the approach is interrupted, the crew has to make a climbing turn and join the missed approach segment which is overhead the aerodrome.
See the EASA Air Operations rules hereunder, pages 574 and 575.
https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/def...ns-Oct2019.pdf
For meteorological conditions, they should be VMC or airport in sight and at least 800m RVR.