"Jose" wrote in message
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So the meaning of "modified" varies with the location?


Right. Sort of like "ground rules" in baseball. Different ground,
different rules.


So what does it mean to an itinerant pilot?



Actually the only "modified straight in" I've come in contact with has
been at EMT but the concept certainly generalizes, and recent posts
confirm at least a second instance.

...but that doesn't stop it from being, in fact, specified.

Of course it does.

No it doesn't.


You're mistaken.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=specified