CAPTJN
What... on a CAVOK day!?!? Ya gotta be kidding me. What in the hell is so difficult for a so-called competent airman to accomplish a visual approach? As a check airman, a skipper has to demonstrate a visual approach without the use of an ILS, VOR, ADF, or automation. They are required to land in the touchdown zone on centerline. What excuse could they offer had all the airport experienced a total power failure, ei, primary, and backup generators, especially under ideal CAVOK conditions?
Its obvious that you are a "little Fokker pilot" flying 6 sector days, 10X5.
Think out of your box to guys who are in the bin through the nite for 11 hrs.
Then in the morning sun, having to shoot an approach with no profile guidance. And guess what its their 2nd leg in 2 weeks.
SFO is darned stupid to notam their way to shutting down multiple aids, leaving a foreign crew, who probably last came to their field 4 months ago, barely able to speak English, the luxury of a visual approach.
If this is not asking for it, you can have the cheese, and eat it.