On 5/8/04 5:19 PM, in article ,
"Judah" wrote:

This was your quote:

I fail to see the reasoning behind demonstrating my FAR/AIM research
skills, as it pertains to my ability to fly safely. I see that it is
recommended to bring the book to the ride, but since I've had no need to
crack open the thing in my last 4 years of flying, I don't see the point.
I think a DE should test the real world, not abstract FAA mumbo jumbo.

The implication is that it is a waste for you to even own a copy because
you have had no need to use it, and it does not represent the "real world".
To you it is abstract FAA mumbo jumbo.

I don't think I mischaracterized or distorted what you said at all.

One of the things I don't like on Usenet is that people write things that
they didn't really mean or think through, and then get insulted when
someone else takes it for what it says without somehow knowing that the
author didn't really mean it...

Admittedly, I have done it too. But I try not to take it so seriously when
someone else reiterates my comments and all of a sudden they don't sound so
good anymore.


Anyway, good luck on your test. I just got my Instrument Rating in
February. I brought my FAR/AIM along, and the DE not only grilled me until
he could catch me on something I didn't know, but he kept going until he
found something that I didn't even know where to look up. When I went to
the FAR/AIM, though, we used his copy, not mine...





I meant no implication beyond what I wrote. I wrote that I had not had a
reason to open the book in the last 4 years of my real world flying, *not*
that I would never see a reason to use it in the future. I have no crystal
ball and cannot and did not make such a claim.

As for the "FAA mumbo jumbo", it is precisely the debates that go on in this
and the other aviation newsgroups about the interpretation of the FARs that
make me label them as such. Often we can't agree among ourselves what they
mean, and as a lowly 250 hour, non-lawyer pilot, I can assure you that I
will not be arguing the legal nuances of any of them with anyone. What
better definition of mumbo jumbo could anyone require?

I will say again that your experience with a DE digging at your knowledge
base until he finds an obscure question you do not know and are forced to
research while he looks on, which seems to be the norm according to most
accounts given here, seems pointless and only purpose appears to be to
inflate the ego of the DE. I recognize that I could be wrong.

Thank you for the good wishes and fly safe.
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