And top down, centralised command and control
worked so well for the Soviet Union didn't it?
Mike
At 06:59 PM 1/11/2017, you wrote:
On 11 Jan 2017, at 7:01 PM, Mike Borgelt
<mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: > > The
medical for private pilots is mere CYA and
virtue signalling by bureaucrats and vested
interests. > Ha-ha-ha, itâs stupider than
that. After the earliest days of aviation, when
passenger carrying was starting to pick up steam
and governments worked out they wanted to
regulate it, they looked around to find the
easiest, simplest, least-effort system of
regulation they could find: Armed services. Most
of the new influx of pilots were ex-military
anyway, so lining up civil aviation regs with
the services meant they had pilots, instructors,
and brass already trained. Sideways shift from
military to civilian life at every level in the
hierarchy. Along the way, they worked out that
every serviceman had a medical (âturn your
head and coughâ), so civilian pilots needed
medicals too. From that harmonious observation,
bureaucracies flourished all around the world,
adding tests, procedures and complexity on an
almost completely arbitrary basis. We now know
it was arbitrary from the statistical analyses
that have been done in various parts of the
world regarding medical incapacitation among
pilots with and without medicals. (kinda similar
to the way GFA was loosely modelled on military
structures: GFAâs CTOs, RTOs, CFIs,
Instructors, Duty Pilots form a chain of
command. The training system and the way that
responsibility for operations was carried by
âsuperiorsâ draws from that model, in the
same way that the General is responsible for the
war crimes carried out by his Privates.
Thereâs never really been any justification
for pilot medicals, and even the people who
practice and administer avmed canât honestly
describe why they do it, with safety cases and
measurable statistics. Itâs mostly just one of
those âweâve always done it that wayâ
things that grew from the fact that the military
had always done it too, coupled with a goodly
dose of superstition and make-believe. The
sooner itâs flushed away, the better. There
are some people who want to fly, and who are
genuinely unhealthy and shouldnât be doing it.
Currently, some of these people get class-2
medicals. Those people should be removed from
the pilot population, but the global avmed
bureaucracy empirically isnât the best way to
do it. - mark
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