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Old 23rd Aug 2009, 11:35
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What I have been trying to get across to you is that precision of language is important.

I'll write slowly since you seem to be having quite some difficulty with this.

You don't break VMC.
You break VFR by flying in conditions below the specified minima.

There is no grey area. You are legal or you are not.

You cannot use expressions such as "complying with VMC" (the original phrase with which I was arguing) because that expression is a total nonsense. You either comply with the requirements of Visual Flight Rules or you do not.

To say "He bust VMC" instead of "He bust VFR" or "He didn't maintain VFR minima" is not only a nonsense, but in being lax with a very specific language (Aviation English) wherein expressions have very specific meanings, you confuse two terms, and it is important that people realise there is a difference.

I would hazard a bet that you don't use precise CAP413 phraseology, since anyway they'll understand what you're on about? That you report "Finals" instead of "Final"? And so on.
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