Originally Posted by
NoelEvans
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.
A visual approach is an IFR approach! I know that’s news to many here who believe otherwise, here’s and at 5 other threads on several forums. DLH, was cleared at SFO for an IFR approach flown visually. No one was cancelling IFR. I know never used outside the US, but it’s an option under IFR.