Or text while driving like the idiot I followed for a while coming
back from the airfield this afternoon (at a safe distance).
The US limitations are up to 6000 pounds, can be IFR and up to 18,000
feet below 250 knots.
The Brits 2000Kg AFAIK and 10000 feet probably isn't any kind of
serious limitation in the UK.
Who knows what goes on in the minds of government bureaucrats besides
"how do I keep my pay, perks, position, pension and power to make
them keep happening"?
The limits are pretty arbitrary and probably don't have any rational
reasoning behind them.
The Australian "Driver's licence medical" is actually a Heavy vehicle
Drivers medical and the standards are exactly the same as for a Class
2(PPL) medical only done by your GP instead of a DAME. It is nonsense
to impose any restrictions. How the number of engines has anything to
do with anything, I don't know.
Don't forget the BGA had a self declaration thing before the EU
nonsense took hold. They never could find any reason for aviation
medicals as the majority of the accidents with a medical component
were by people with aviation medicals or were serving military
officers who had medicals at least as or more rigorous than aviation medicals.
The real issue here is whether the State has any business restricting
the activities of individuals when there is no evidence that such
activities cause third party risk anywhere near as high as the risks
we all accept everyday.
Mike
At 06:17 PM 1/11/2017, you wrote:
Thanks Mike,
I was playing devil's advocate.
>You might also like to contemplate that in the case of sudden
incapacitation when driving a car you are far more likely to damage
property and innocent third parties than in an aircraft. Aircraft
crash all the time for all sorts of reasons (98 vs 160,000) and how
often is anything significant on the ground damaged? Cars seem to
end up in houses with monotonous regularity.
True.
But what is sadder that many choose to become medically
incapacitated by driving whilst intoxicated, damaging/killing third parties.
Interesting though the limitations on the new medical declarations
(ie single engine only, below 10,000', a/c below a certain weight
and numbers of Pax), does anyone know how they were decided?
By your arguments, why should there be a Medical for any pilot?
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