"John R Weiss" wrote in message
news:EhBPb.100820$nt4.298386@attbi_s51...
I believe I clarified a [very common] case where 91.185c3 would indeed
apply,
where the clearance limit is the destination airport, in my last paragraph
above. I believe I also provided a sound basis for my rationale regarding
the
actual clearance limit -- a rationale that gives some sense to 91.185c3.

I notice here that you're drawing a distinction between the "clearance
limit" (a term defined in the AIM P/CG)--which you acknowledge can be the
destination airport--and the "actual clearance limit" (a term that is
nowhere defined)--which you say can be the IAF if the "clearance limit"
itself is the destination airport. Then, you're choosing to construe the
term "clearance limit" in 91.185c3 to refer not to the actual "clearance
limit", but rather to the "actual clearance limit", as you've defined the
latter phrase.

Again, the very need for such preposterous contortions demonstrates that
91.185c3 does not make sense as written.

--Gary