"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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I think Robert was talking about VFR flight following, not an IFR
approach. If it were an IFR approach, you'd only be instructed to squawk
1200 if you'd cancelled IFR--but in that case, you're now VFR and you no
longer "own" the runway (and if you have to go missed, you're still just
VFR; if you re-enter the clouds, you're VFR in IMC).


Being IFR or VFR has nothing to do with "owning" the runway.