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Originally Posted by adreamer  my thinking was to get a cruise clearance to destination airport and then descend below the cloud (using not authorized approach as guideline.) Once we broke out, I can either ask for contact approach or good ole visual approach. |
<<using not authorized approach as guideline.>>
I suspected that was what you had in mind. I believe you would be in violation of 91.175(a) and 91.177 if you did that.
§ 91.175 Takeoff and landing under IFR.
(a) Instrument approaches to civil airports.
Unless otherwise authorized by the Administrator,
when an instrument letdown to a civil airport is necessary, each person operating an aircraft, except a military aircraft of the United States, shall use a standard instrument approach procedure prescribed for the airport in part 97 of this chapter.
§ 91.177 Minimum altitudes for IFR operations.
(a) Operation of aircraft at minimum altitudes. Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft under IFR below -
(1) The
applicable minimum altitudes prescribed in Parts 95 and 97 of this chapter; or
(2) If no applicable minimum altitude is prescribed in those parts -
(i) In the case of operations over an area designated as a mountainous area in part 95, an altitude of 2,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal distance of 4 nautical miles from the course to be flown; or
(ii) In any other case, an altitude of
1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal distance of 4 nautical miles from the course to be flown.
Since the approach is not authorized, you do not have a valid means of descending from minimum enroute altitudes.