That reminds me first flight in AOCed airline when by 25 miles from airport, I told the Capt "runway in sight".
He stared at me surprised as it wasn't a correct call at such a range and ask me if I wanted to go visual (a bit upset)
This nice guy wanted to go through the whole hog : loc alive, switch on ILS frq, glide alive and blabla.
I just remind him as a debrief that, as far as I was concern, the goal of a flight was to find the correct airport. But obviously that was not safe at all, as he could not put the wheels on the rwy w/o all this process
Once again, we are not the best pilots on Earth, we are just pilots and some believes that if they stick to the books, they'll become The best pilot on Earth...
It's pancake time now, enjoy your Sunday, Gentlemen.