Originally Posted by
West Coast
You might be able to find a slot, but at the expense of another arrival who now takes delay vectors /hold to open up the spacing.
As to calling the field, I’m in SFO monthly and have never been pressured, either I do or I don’t have the field in sight. Respectfully, I suggest you rethink your decision to report the field in sight when it’s not.
Again, I’m in two minds over this one, but having operated a fair bit into SFO (not once a month, though) and in some less-than-perfect weather, I haven’t experienced delays
even when everyone has to do the ILS due to the cloud ceiling/vis. That sort of hints that they could could do it “properly” if they wanted to but can’t be bothered.
Personally, I don’t call visual unless it fulfils the criteria I operate to; I was offering an explanation as to maybe that’s why I have experienced other aircraft calling visual when I, in the same position just before/after, see no possibility of doing so...