Islander, it seems you are indeed looking for a spat dragging up a comment from several pages ago that has been discussed to death.
The AOPA submission is correct. It gives the correct number of years. It does not get dragged down in idle irrelevant history nor try to claim that the rating has been around since the wright brothers..... 38 years is not 50 years is it?
I do not see the relevance of your comment. The IMCR as it stands NOW is what needs to be preserved or are you suggesting we take it back to 10 hrs?
Anyway as I have said several posts ago, I am done arguing AOPA's case on here.