We're currently at 3,200 feet over the ocean, and it's raining so hard I'm looking for Noah on the TCAS. We've slowed down to around 180 knots-not because ATC asked us to-but because we are buying time. We're in uncontrolled airspace, ATC is thousands of miles away, and so my only concern is terrain; but the ride is smooth, even in the weather. Getting in is, at best, questionable, but the fellow on the ground who is reading us the weather has just advised us that we can (currently) get in. We need a ceiling of 460 feet and a visibility of two miles, and as hard as it is to believe, he is reporting better than that. To my right is not only the airport, but the nearly 2,100 feet of mountain that is between me and it.
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