On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:44:02 GMT, "Gary Drescher"
wrote:

Thanks, perhaps I'll ask them. So far all of my IMC approaches have been to
Class B, C, or D airports, so I haven't been very concerned about this
issue. But it does seem to me that the safety of being in controlled
airspace during the approach until below the MDA would outweigh the
usefulness of being able to fly VFR under a 700' ceiling (especially at HIE,
surrounded by hills and mountains).

The majority of my instrument approaches during the past three or four
years have been to airports with MDA's in uncontrolled airspace.

As a matter of fact, yesterday I setting up for an approach into my home
base, with weather in this area no better than 900/2, and there was VFR
flight going on near an airport about twenty miles from my home base. It
happened to be a SAR mission at 500'.


--ron