Airway Code
I joined this discussion out of a pet hate of 'silly' rules. Its positive is that it made me carefully read SERA and the comparison with the old Rules of the air.
One thing it has hopefully made quite clear is that rules which need interpretation or read across from legal principles might be fine for the legal profession but they are no use for pilots, hence the 'phone a friend' 'old wives tales' responses to aspects of this discussion.
Perhaps it makes very clear that the GASVIG or GASVFR or whatever the acronym group's approach to producing an equivalent to the Highway Code would be well worthwhile?