"Richard Russell" wrote in message
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Sorry for babbling on, but how can it be that this situation has
existed for so long without remedy? I work in a bureaucracy and
regularly deal with other bureaucracies, but I can find to parallel to
this example.


1. Because the real world is simply too complicated for "perfect"
regulations which have no room for misinterpretation or ambiguity.

2. Because the regs were written a long time ago in a more innocent age when
precision wasn't so important.

3. Because ambiguity serves the FAA's bureaucratic interests by giving it
the wiggle room to interpret things its way when it serves its purpose.

-cwk.