Visual approaches for commercial flights ?
Are visual approaches still requested by crews or offered by ATC anywhere in the world ? I haven't heard of one on the airbands for years whereas once it was common to hear an airliner begin to receive vectors for an ILS/NDB/VOR approach and then for the crew to say they were visual with the airfield or runway and request to proceed accordingly. Do aviation authorities now mandate an instrument approach for commercial traffic or do the airlines, by and large, now insist on one every time, thus relegating the visual ?
Thankyou.