If the conditions were SVFR then why ask him to return? If they were sub SVFR ATC had no rights to request a non IR pilot to land in sub SVFR conditions.
Pace,
That is exactly the point that I have been making.
I said the same thing in a different way, when I said
The conditions then deteriated at the airport. As a result of this deteration, ATC asked the pilot to return to the airport.....the only place that they knew that conditions were not suitable.
Why ask someone to leave their current position, and go to the only place that you know is not suitable?
SoCal then said that I was assuming too much, but I don't know what he thinks I'm assuming.
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