Narrative:

I was assigned a trip as the captain on a flight to ryy. The weather was marginal IMC; due to ground fog. The forecast for arrival was to be VMC. There was no notams for the flight. 30 min out; my first officer received the ATIS from the airport and the weather was improving to VMC; but the winds were calm; so ground fog was still in the area and they were advertising the RNAV/GPS 9. My first officer (first officer) advised me that there were issues with the FMS system in the past about it dropping GPS/RNAV approach's at the final app fix. Since the winds were calm; I asked him to ask the controllers that we would like the ILS 27 approach. The controller told us that the approach was not available. Since the weather was improving and I had ground contact; we as a crew discussed flying the RNAV/GPS 9 approach until the FMS or weather was an issue then we would go missed. Inbound on the approach; I had ground contact and the visibility was more than 3 miles. Turning onto final; I had the airport in sight and we both agreed to continue with the approach; not seeing [any] problems. Approx. 1 mile from the end of the rwy; with the rwy in sight; the tower controller told us to check altitude. We advised him that we had the rwy in sight. Taxiing in; we switched to ground control freq.; and I asked when was the ILS 27 was NOTAM'd out of service. He said it wasn't; he just didn't want to give it to us.

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Title: Corporate turbojet Captain reported issues with Approach Control while landing in marginal VFR conditions.

Narrative: I was assigned a trip as the Captain on a flight to RYY. The weather was marginal IMC; due to ground fog. The forecast for arrival was to be VMC. There was no NOTAMs for the flight. 30 min out; my first officer received the ATIS from the airport and the weather was improving to VMC; but the winds were calm; so ground fog was still in the area and they were advertising the RNAV/GPS 9. My FO (First Officer) advised me that there were issues with the FMS system in the past about it dropping GPS/RNAV approach's at the final app fix. Since the winds were calm; I asked him to ask the controllers that we would like the ILS 27 approach. The controller told us that the approach was not available. Since the weather was improving and I had ground contact; we as a crew discussed flying the RNAV/GPS 9 approach until the FMS or weather was an issue then we would go missed. Inbound on the approach; I had ground contact and the visibility was more than 3 miles. Turning onto final; I had the airport in sight and we both agreed to continue with the approach; not seeing [any] problems. Approx. 1 mile from the end of the rwy; with the rwy in sight; the tower controller told us to check altitude. We advised him that we had the rwy in sight. Taxiing in; we switched to ground control freq.; and I asked when was the ILS 27 was NOTAM'd out of service. He said it wasn't; he just didn't want to give it to us.

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