Was attending a course at Flight Safety at ICT last month, and the instructor was telling my class how the AIM is indeed regulatory due to this paragraph in the preface, and the bolded sentence specifically......even more specifically, the word "required":
Interesting, since another instructor later on in class said the AIM wasn't; which is always the school of thought I'd graduated from.
Interesting, since another instructor later on in class said the AIM wasn't; which is always the school of thought I'd graduated from.
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