"Dave S"
I have to wonder.. how did you blow through your required fuel reserves
for IFR with only "one" missed/messed up approach? Were you stretching
it, not plan for winds or were your fuel numbers wrong some other way?

I think he filed VFR and was surprised, after 3+ hours of flight, to
encounter IFR conditions. He requested a clearance to land... or am I
reading the wrong post?

How many of us of asked for and gotten a clearance to descend through a
layer with little or no thought to required IFR reserves?