Originally Posted by
thesweetlycool
Yeah as we were starting the approach, ATC gave us a phone number to call when we were on the ground, which is never a good sign. Im sure that was because if we did land.. we were going to get a hashing.
Never knew how terrifying getting to DH and not seeing anything can be! Though now I want to try it again...haha.
This was obviously the Tracon facility giving you their number, and you were shooting an approach to an uncontrolled field????(Or tower was closed???)
That is just a way to expedite communications so that you can get your IFR cancelled in a timely manner, cutting out the middleman(FSS) to cancel your clearance. I'm willing to bet that this was the case, not a number to call because you were already in trouble.
Remember, to continue to land, you need the runway environment/lights to continue an additional 100', and then you must have the runway itself to descend the remaining distance to the runway to land. If you don't have any of those qualifiers, then you must go missed. Even if XXX is reporting whatever weather, you can still get around those if actual flight visibility works. If you are operating Part 91, and didn't bend any metal, you're going to be ok. Now any 135 operators are going to have a hard time explaining starting the approach with it already below min's.