Reporting airport in sight on visual approach
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:24 am
Keith - need your guidance on what to do in this situation. I am approaching an airport on an IFR flight plan, the controller says to expect the visual approach, gives me vectors to field and says to report field in sight. The screen resolution in the sim just does not match real life and I'm just a few miles out from the airport before I can actually see it on the screen, even in CAVOK conditions. The problem is more prevalent during daytime operations when field lights are hard to see. By the time I actually can make out the field, I am way too high to be able to descend at a safe rate to land. I'm using Foreflight, so I know exactly where the airport should be, I just can't identify it until too late. What should I do for purposes of being able to make safe landings without having to go around? Should I report airport in sight at a distance out when you would normally be able to make out the field in real life? I don't want to do anything that is not right, but this is just a limitation in flying a sim that doesn't exist in real life. Looking forward to your guidance.