Originally Posted by
EPIRB
Is there a difference between the approaches from an ATC perspective?
Atc used to be thingy about it years back when qf asked us to do em in syd in nice weather (IVA time) ... ended up just asking for a 'visual via the gls' as (i suspect) they lost a lot of flexibility giving us a formal approach (not really what we were after any ways but, semantics.)