On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:29:53 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

Years ago, before the USGPO decided that the pages were
printed on solid gold, I subscribed to the FARs. It took 4
4 inch ring binders for parts 61 and 91, there were at least
a dozen pages of comments for each regulation...why it was
needed, what it meant and what the NPRM comments had said
and any revision made in response. Just reading a two or
three sentence regulation is only a small part of the law.


Yup, the preamble usually tells more about the intent than the
finished product ever could. I have all of them via ATP IA software.