"Gary Drescher" wrote...

The real solution here would be not to publicize the official
interpretation, but rather to rewrite the FARs to make them more sensible.
The problem is that here (as elsewhere), the FAA confusingly uses a key term
to designate two different things: the phrase "instrument conditions",
although it refers to meteorological conditions, means something different
from the phrase "instrument meteorological conditions"!

Unfortunately, the NPRM process is so political when it comes to major changes
in the FARs that it takes WAY too long to effect any change -- of course, unless
the TSA decides it needs the authority to force the FAA to revoke Pilot
Certificates, with little or no reason or recourse available to the affected
Pilot...