"Michael" wrote in message
om...

experience. This is always the problem with rules - removing the
discretion assures some minimum standard for those doing it wrong, at
the expense of making things worse for those genuinely trying to do it
right. Once you accept that having rules is a good thing (I don't),
it's a bit late to argue that a new rule change removes too much of
your discretion.

I do not think there is any profession that has been improved by removing
discretion or judgment.

Come to think of it, maybe that is why this new PTS hit such a nerve with
me -- it seems as if the FAA is starting to micro-manage CFIs just like
managed care tries to micro-manage my judgment as a physician. Neither is
likely to improve the quality of the underlying service.

CFIs who will sign off an IPC today based on only a vectored ILS will still
do so after October 1 and would still do so even if 61.57(d) were made more
restrictive; limiting CFI judgment only hurts those CFIs who are trying to
do it right to the best of their ability and judgment.

While we are at it though, why not require specific tasks for a BFR as well
as an IPC?


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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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