HFD, I raised the question this week with a CAA FE who sat auditing a Multi Engine Examiner course. The exact question was raised during the CRE course and the answer as I gave in an earlier post.
DFC is legendary for creating his own rules and regulations and trying to convince the rest of us he is correct so everyone should take his interpretation with a good dollop of salt.
In the meantime I will continue to follow the guidance given to me from the horses mouth!!1