Originally Posted by
MajorDickasons
I am familiar with determining flight visibility on precision approaches with being able to see the decision bar from and a couple of additional lights to confirm I have 1/2 mile flight visibility. But how do you determine flight visibility on non-precision approaches, especially when your decision point is the VDP? Every article I find online references precision approaches only.
If you're at minimums, your only concern is '
do I see the runway environment and can I descend from MDA?' If you have the approach lights, you can descend 100' below, and if you have the runway, come on down. That's not the time to be guessing what the visibility is. You needed the appropriate legal visibility to start the approach. To finish it, you need to be able to see the runway environment.