Originally Posted by
Fuji Abound
At an airport with a procedure you could fly the procedure and once established VMC ask to terminate the procedure and continue to make a visual approach or break off the approach completely and depart en route. With the consent of AT I see no reason why you should not do so at any point in the procedure.
In real life, it would be exceptionally rare to have a cloud base lower than the MEA/MSA and not so low that you would not be be on the final approach leg when you broke out.
Originally Posted by
Fuji Abound
That aside I dont see how else AT could "allow or help you" with a descent from to IMC to VMC -
It is relatively common for a radar equipped controller to vector aircraft to intercept an extended final approach course and descend you to their minimum vectoring altitude, at which point hopefully you are right at/under the cloud base and can see ground straight underneath you and make the couple of foot descent into VMC. This is a reasonably sensible approach when the cloud base is around 1000-1200 ft AGL