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Your feathers obviously ruffled by previous post. Not sure I agree with all of it myself either, but whilst you are correct to say that the ATC perspective is different from what the pilot can see from the cockpit, the "limited" view from the tower is still considerably better than when said pilot is looking out into 8/8 cloud and does not know what the vis is going to be like when/if breaks cloud at minima, hurtling towards the ground with (hopefully) the runway in front of him/her.
In these circumstances the ATC/MET report is all, perhaps unfortuantely, the pilot has to go on. FACT. They should therefore act accordingly
I remind you both though, my original statement acknowledged that the conditions for reporting approaches in JSP552 are, generally, above the pilot's minima... them are the rules. I think this may have something to do with collecting stats on LVP operations at military bases... it's nothing personal!