Funnily enough..........During my short time with the French Air Force, one bad weather day with nothing better to do, I asked to look at their equivalent of our rule book, then JSP318, or the ANO to our civilian friends. My French colleagues pointed me at several dusty volumes in the corner of the library, each the same size as our JSP. I started scanning them and very soon found that they were officious, contradictory and thus, impossible to operate to.
"How on earth do you operate to these regulations?" I asked.
"We don't. We ignore them!" came the very quick reply.