Kirks Gusset and CJ1234 - no one is cooking up a home-brewed NPA approach. What I am suggesting is using all the information you have available to you rather than ignore critical information. You will no doubt be aware that countless visual approaches go wrong for one reason or another and numerous have ended up being peformed on the wrong runway or a road very similar to the runway. The problem is that visual approaches are often not performed in CAVOK conditions and that can lead to big snags. That being the case, it would seem prudent at all times in flight to use all the aids available to you. To completely ignore the plethora of information you have available to you in the cockpit of an Airbus is simply crass ineptitude. A visual approach is just that - a visual approach. That does not preclude the use of other sources of information to assist in the correct performing of that approach. The human brain, however, being limited in the way it is can frequently give incorrect guidance to its owner! As I said, there are so many examples of visual approaches that have gone wrong in tricky weather conditions (still legally 'visual') or when a road seems more attractive than the runway. The technique I have described is by no means the only way of doing it, but it does work every time. I do not really care what method you use to carry out a visual approach, but to open the door to unnecesary difficulty by failing to use all the resources available to you in any situation is just plain foolish.