ATCinWI Senior Member Illinois

bigrex, re-read what you just posted: I'll highlight the answer

Instructions for a pilot to abandon his/her approach to landing. Additional instructions may follow. Unless otherwise advised by ATC, a VFR aircraft or an aircraft conducting a VISUAL APPROACH should overfly the runway while climbing to traffic pattern altitude and enter the traffic pattern via the crosswind leg. A pilot on an IFR flight plan making an instrument approach should execute the published missed approach procedures or proceed as instructed by ATC.

Just to clarify, because it seems like this is not common knowledge . . . IFR aircraft can proceed visually in the traffic pattern, maintain visual separation from other aircraft, and fly visual approaches. Being IFR doesn't mean they always have to fly solely by reference to instruments all the time. It guarantees them separation from other aircraft and obstructions, either from ATC, charted procedures, or their own ability to fly using visual references (looking out the window).