I note that everyone is very reluctant to name these CAA officials and FAA officials who say certain things. However, if one wants confirmation that 500ftDH and 600ft MDH are the absolute minima for an IMC holder - mandatory and that is what we teach and test please ask the chief examminer at the CAA and post their reply here for us all to see.
Hmm. DFC, tell us, how many times have you claimed to have the absolute inside track on various things (eg, ATC unit procedures) and then refused to state the basis of your so-called "knowledge" .... pot to kettle, over .... Also : does the use of "we teach" now proclaim an instructor status ?
I am an IMC holder who - brace yourself - doesn't any longer believe that I know the answer to the minimums question. I have had my head filled with "absolute knowledge" available from the instruction/flying school/pundit crowd, and I have had so many varying opinions that I have come to the conclusion that I'd be no worse off raising the question on this forum - i.e., I'm not likely to find a definitive on here either !
Let's face it, you ask an what should be a simple enough question of aviation law, and receive a clutch of opinions regarding sentence construction. You ask for subject literacy, and receive (probably dodgy) answers relating to linguistic literacy.
Good fun this may be, but those who sign up to this forum should be made very, very aware that there are as many duff opinions as facts to be found here ... which may of course include the one I've just expressed !
For what it's worth, I tend to keep to the 500/600 mantra unless I'm bloody sure of what I'm doing and where I am ... Wrong ? Possibly. But I'll wait for the for the
proof. And for what it's worth, that won't be provided by someone with a 3rd in English language ....
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