Help for a trainee ATCO on VFR/IFR
Hi guys,
Thought this would be a good place to come with my question. Hopefully some of you don't mind helping with unraveling my confusion. I'm a trainee ATCO in the UK by the way.
Are there any rules prohibiting navigating via the use of nav-aids and instruments while flying under the VFR (or SVFR)? A scenario could be an aircraft joining controlled airspace on a VFR clearance and then wanting to use the ILS. Can this be done while still flying VFR, or should the clearance now change to IFR?
My simple understanding of the rules when I came out of initial training was that pilots flying VFR will navigate using visual references on the surface while pilots flying IFR will use VOR's, NDB's etc. However, when I think back to the rules in the ANO (what a horrible read) they don't state anything about how one is to navigate, just rules on the visibility and the compliance with clearances etc.