Mandarin Pip Spence wouldn’t know a medical certificate from a tub of strawberry yogurt. She is another clueless DAS who follows whatever line her legal department (ironically also filled with non-aviation people) tow’s. Pip only knows how to polish her Ministers shoes and bank her $650k salary. She will never offer up her opinion because she can’t, she doesn’t understand aviation. She does however understand the process of sliding upon the greasy pole while tickling the ears of other executive bureaucrats. The CASA AVMED process has been seriously flawed for longer than anyone can remember. It’s been a long standing joke. CASA, please just pull the trigger on the required changes and let Australia’s pilots get on with the business of keeping this country running.