Therefore I conclude that flying an LPV approach with published minimum lower than 300 ft HAT meets the requirements of the ACS and is valid for issuance of an instrument rating.
I am so far out of instrument currency, and I learned when ILS was still the king, so much of my knowledge is outdated; please take my thoughts with that in mind. Also, I am in no way in the 'know' on any of this particular situation. I am however often dealing with government and people for different reasons.
Frequent: Thank you for pulling up the regulations. my Talkeetna charts are a bit outdated, but I see the minimums are 600 and 700 feet AGL there; Your quote from the ACS is specific in the wording to say minimums'. You conclude that if minimums are
published at or below- Talkeetna is not.
IF this is really the situation, a DPE making adjustments to adapt to his location and help students- making his own approach minimums for a check ride approach to satisfy 'precision' requirement- this approach to flying was once the standard of how DPE's worked. They required you to know how to fly the plane, made sure you understood that, and most were quick to know if you were capable and would adjust check rides to keep you sweating even if it was easy for you.
In today's world we have an industry operated by bean counters and overseen by attorneys. Most of the FAA today is former military- and the attorneys running the show I doubt are pilots. The boots on the ground are given pre-filled out letters with websites that have boxes to check. The only memory item is the login and password. There is not much room for adjusting to real world, in fact the FAA in the big city down south believes Alaska should be the same as everywhere in all rules.
I can imagine a situation in which a FSDO inspector is talking to a long time pilot about something like this and the discussion going off the rails. FSDO folks are people, with personalities. When things start sideways they have the mass of attorneys and pre-approved forms to make all kinds of bad stuff happen to you. Even if a pilot is in the right, make the safest call you can, the FAA has more money to fight you and make your life miserable. Sometimes it is best to just nod and listen- and do it their way for any check ride to get the job done. They have a job to do also even if they don't like the decision given to them.
The sad part is that no matter what, it is general aviation that will suffer the most. A bunch of pilots need to go spend time and money to get their check rides re-done, and one less DPE available; how many pilots will now shy away from the DPE work because of this?
My scenario is speculation through what other's have said. My personal experience with the FAA reminds me that they are people with personalities, we must treat them as such if we wish to move forward without lots of friction.