Very interesting reading, Rustle.
You're right about it not being relevant to the thread, though. In this case, the cloud base was sufficiently high for the pilot to be able to break cloud and switch to VFR well above any limits. His error came after that, when he was VFR in VMC, and elected to continue a visual approach despite flying into an area of bad viz. Could happen just as easilly to a vanilla PPL flying circuits, I suppose (except for his home-made runway lighting system...)
From my first post on this thread:
As for it being safe, well, that's not possible to say without giving details of a specific case - so let's assume that our pilot isn't going to do anything unsafe at all, the only question is the legality
Vintage ATCO's post has further convinced me that what I'm proposing
is legal. I am making no comment on whether or not it's safe.
FFF
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