On Feb. 28, the FAA issued Notice No: NOTC2305, which concludes that previous legal interpretations of the requirements of FAR 61.65(d)(2)(ii)(C) are “overly restrictive.” The regulation deals with the requirements for completing the cross-country portion of training for the instrument rating and says in “plain language” (words from the FAA statement) that the applicant must complete three different types of instrument approaches as part of the flight. But two “legal interpretations,” one from 2008 and the second reached in 2012, concluded that the three approaches must involve three separate navigation systems, for example VOR, ADF and ILS.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-rescinds-legal-rulings-on-obsolete-ifr-training-requirement