Bloggs, my duty as a Line Pilot is to follow the SOP's and Procedures as outlined in our Operations Manuals. It is their train set, so I play with it as they would like us to. In fact as someone else mentioned earlier this makes my job easier, which is great. I too have seen the DME arrival screwed up too many times(HB RWY 30), so the current method
VB wants us to employ (no cirling approaches, and DME arrivals with an effective minima of 1500 AGL suite me). I always call the Tower on Comm2 and get an actual update of the conditions if it looks questionable. I then decide if we need to conduct a runway aligned instrument appraoch, or will the DME arrival provide a "cloud break" above 1500 AGL to allow a "visual circuit". Simple really.
Yes I will call our Fleet Manager to confirm if ASA know, and I suspect that they do.