Originally Posted by
hindsight2020
The irony in that statement. Go call a FSDO on Tuesday and ask. Call the same FSDO on Wednesday and ask. Then call a different FSDO on Tuesday and ask. You'll end up with 4 different answers.
If you think those cubicle-flying clock watchers can agree on where to go for lunch, let alone the answer to any certification requirement question, I got a timeshare in Syria to sell you...
No problem deciding where to go to lunch
I asked this question on Friday to two different former ASIs.
Why so many different answers from different people.
One of them said that he was told that the regs are written broadly and open for interpretation because aviation can't grow in a hard box of black and white, hard and fast rules.
I guess there could be some truth to that way of thinking, but it is hard for my black and white self to understand sometimes. Almost like SOPs - some in my communities were suppose to be hard and fast and others were only guidelines to build the sortie around - a in-lieu of a formal brief fall back plan.
Like others have said though, it is not the ASIs job to interpret the FARs.