From: lumpy@digitalcartography.com   
      
   miso@sushi.com wrote:   
   > On approach to SFO (San Francisco Oakland), if the pilot says he can   
   > see the bridge (San Mateo I presume) and the airport, the pilot can   
   > change to a visual approach. It might be the same for Groom. The   
   > pilots going to SFO have a stock line, something like "I have the   
   > bridge and airport in sight."   
      
   That's what I've typically seen/heard in air comms.   
   Runway in sight means literally "can see the runway".   
   I'm confused, in the case of this Sting xmission,   
   that he was apparently over Mercury or so, or   
   wherever PLANET is, and says "in sight".   
      
      
   Lumpy   
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