From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Mary.Shaw@CMU-10A@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Title: Re: instrument approaches
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3078
Posted: Fri Sep  3 00:25:46 1982
Received: Wed Sep  8 07:02:27 1982

True, FAR 61.57 requires merely "instrument approaches", rather than
"instrument approaches to published minimums" -- but think about it.
The purpose of the regulation is to keep pilots proficient; real
approaches are flown in three dimensions, sometimes to minima.  When
you file an instrument flight plan, you are implicitly agreeing that
you can fly whatever procedures you need to.

It isn't unusual to find that "legal" is not identically "safe" under
the FARS.  In this case, "safe" surely requires that those practice
approaches be flown to minimums.

Mary Shaw