As simple and straight forward as the visual approach, is sometimes you might end up wishing you were in the soup to minimums. The visual approach has a few traps waiting to grab you. It is important to remember the visual approach is not an instrument approach even though you are still on an IFR flight plan.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/technique/cleared-for-the-visual