All together posting this on PPL/IR was very badly conceived and I would have thought some of the more responsible members of that organisation (Bookworm as one example comes to mind) would have cautioned him not to go to press.
The only caution I would have offered anyone was to those of you who fired up a distasteful and personal attack on him in the first place, based on misinformation. Now, instead of a constructive debate on FCL.008's proposals, we seem to have battle lines being drawn up and trenches being dug. I don't see how that can possibly be in the interests of GA instrument flying in Europe.