Thanks CD. I was already familiar with most of your references.
I guess what I'm encountering is a reluctance of the powers that be to read the material themselves, and to be honest, a concern that I'm overreacting to the situation. Simply stated, our procedure isn't per the AFM spec and even though the risk is miniscule or negligible, I'd prefer that we did.
It would be easy to compromise on the required procedure here and I just wanted a general poll to see if that is in fact what was happenning.