Sure. The onus is on the pilot to navigate to the runway using terrain
features, etc. I don't think that a request for a contact approach would
ever be denied.

Bob Gardner

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
...
On the most recent Pilots Audio Update, the narrator was talking about a
time when fog covered half the airport, but he could see the runway he was
going to land on, but because the control tower was on the foggy half of
the airport, they wouldn't approve a visual approach. He was being
vectored all around, and thought it ironic that he never lost sight of the
runway. Could he had gotten a contact approach if he'd asked for it?

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