The FAA did not write the new instrument handbook. I wrote two chapters
myself. What the FAA did, however, was to edit the text severely and force
it to fit into some of their preconceived notions. I lost some good stuff
during the editing process.

Bob Gardner

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Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, said:
Chip Jones wrote:
No. When ATC says "Direct XYZ when able", the unsaid part of the
message is
that they have deconflicted you from traffic between you and XYZ.
With no
That is SO well stated. Too bad, all the FAAs can't get together and
put gems
like that in a guidance handbook.

It was clear, direct, understandable and based on the real world. So
the
FAA would have no interest in publishing anything like it.



No doubt you're right on that one. When they wrote the current IFR
Handbook they
ended up with some pretty big errors because the left hand didn't know
what the
right hand was doing.