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Fire and brimstone
I have just renewed my medical and the AME got my eye colour, hair colour, height (and by association, BMI), all wrong.
I challenged each error and was over-ruled.
I also put down my employer on the CAA form every year, and even so, they still had me working for a company that went bust over ten years ago.
One year I was also 2" shorter than every other year; another year the AME weighed me as 1/2 stone more than I was. When I challenged this, I was reprimanded, and told his scales were calibrated and accurate. When we went to use a second set to prove he was right, it showed his scales did over-read by 1/2 stone. He had been using these scales, one presumes, for all his medicals.
I can see how 'mistakes' happen ............
This is pretty poor. I find it funny that we as laymen get reprimanded for challenging the most obvious mistakes, whilst being at risk for prosecution for failing to declare minor medical issues.
There is a definite trust issue here and the authorities are making it difficult to trust their ability to get simple things right, let alone complex issues.
This is why we have issues with people hiding things.