spitoon, I agree, procedural approach is rather 'interesting'. However, that does not get away from the original statement that VMC approaches are assumed to be training approaches. This is a big misconception. In the military we always follow the courteous approach and pre-book our intstument approaches when visiting other airfields. However, if the IFR approach is at your parent airfield there is generally no requirement to pre-book but it is taken as read that any training approach has a relatively low priority,ordinarily taking second place to a 'route' inbound). Nevertheless, if a pilot elects to operate under IFR he should be afforded the appropriate service.