Fun with literal reading of regulations

[Lindberg]

I notice that the regulation on direction of turns says "when approaching to land" and does not explicitly mention being in the pattern.

You mean in a thread about the literal interpretation of regulations, someone piped in without actually reading the regulation? This is my shocked face.

 

[Palmpilot]

You mean in a thread about the literal interpretation of regulations, someone piped in without actually reading the regulation? This is my shocked face.

 

[DesertNomad]

So my box of fireflies on the nose doesn’t count as a landing light?

 

[Skyrys62]

So my box of fireflies on the nose doesn’t count as a landing light?

When you say nose, do you mean aircraft nose, or...

 

[MauleSkinner]

So my box of fireflies on the nose doesn’t count as a landing light?

Not when flying for hire.

 

[Brad W]

not aviation, but this reminds me of a "procedure" the company I was working for at the time set in ink for the purposes of an ISO 9000 certification.

The procedure required the operator to remove the knives from the wood chipper and transport by fork truck to the machine shop where they would be resharpened. I pointed out that if the forklift ever breaks down and in a pinch they wheelbarrow them over then they will be out of compliance.

 

[geneseib]

So, if you have 5 applicants take checkrides, and 4 pass on the first try, you're good. But what if you had a 6th signoff, but for whatever reason they didn't take the checkride? Now you have 6 signoffs, but only 4 actually passed the test on the first attempt! That's less than 80%, so a literal reading of this regulation says that doesn't qualify. I don't think any of us would feel that's the intent though.

If they didn't take a checkride, there was no 6th "attempt".

 

[EdFred]

not aviation, but this reminds me of a "procedure" the company I was working for at the time set in ink for the purposes of an ISO 9000 certification.

The procedure required the operator to remove the knives from the wood chipper and transport by fork truck to the machine shop where they would be resharpened. I pointed out that if the forklift ever breaks down and in a pinch they wheelbarrow them over then they will be out of compliance.

I have many a customer than paint themselves into corners like this. Had one customer I would on occasion deliver a 55 gallon drum to. We normally delivered by a certain vehicle so they wrote it into their code "unload from vehicle x." I had to bring it via a different vehicle one day due to it being a line down situation and the other vehicle type was unavailable. They said their procedures were blah blah blah. I said, we have 3 options: 1, you unload it from the vehicle I brought it in. 2, I take it back to the warehouse and you shut your line down until we can get another vehicle. 3, I roll it out and we take the chance that it breaks or doesn't break, and then you can call the cleanup crew and do paperwork. The decided to go with option 1 and rewrite their procedures.

 

[Pinecone]

Pyrotechnic landing lights could be (and have been) installed.

Some older aircraft have flare dispensers. You would would drop a parachute flare and land by the light of it.