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Old 1st Aug 2013, 14:40
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Visual approaches by foreign airlines at LAX were banned for some time years ago after a Quantas 747-400 having been cleared for visual approach at night to 25L (which requires calling the runway in sight) mistook Hawthorne airport which has a tiny runway and went around at just a few hundred feet after ATC screamed bloody murder low altitude alert and finally go-around. This is not the first time.

In fact unless you know the long list of things that change the moment you accept a visual approach, you shouldn't be doing one anyway. For instance, if you don't know that it is clearly in writing in the regs that "there is no Missed Approach segment to a visual approach" and that you are NOT expected or authorized to perform the published Missed Approach of any Inststrument approach published for that runway in the event of a Go-Around (unless of course you ask and ATC approves), you have no business flying a visual approach in the first place due to ignorance.
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