Detent is a nice grey area isnt it! I know the main reason for providing advisory distance is for the emergency situation, and that is good info to have if youre in a spot of bother. The JAA basically accept the testing and certification that Boeing does to certify for the Feds.
Carmoisine, the latest perf preamble, which is also on crewdock, Nov 8th 06, has a bunch of new items in it. Missed app climb gradient capability is now in there for example. This should have been rolled out in the winter ops roadshow in my opinion. I think there are a few people who dont know about this yet!!!