Originally Posted by
Check Airman
... I wouldn't dream of going to JFK and requesting an ILS when they've said the VOR is in use. If you're capable of doing it, you're expected to do it.
If DLH management is going to write stupid rules for their pilots to follow, they can continue to expect lengthy delays while operating in US airpsace.
What a nonsense comment!
Nobody is talking about "requesting an ILS when they've said the VOR is in use".
If an airline files an IFR Flight Plan for a flight, it should remain IFR all the way to landing unless the crew request the cancellation of IFR. If an airport cannot cope with that, that is the airport's problem to sort out, not the airline's. DLH management have not written any "stupid rules for their pilots to follow", they are entirely rational. It is coming across more and more that SFO is a "good weather airport" that does not have the capacity to deal normally with IFR traffic.