Clare Prop: The version of Form 420 in your post #80 looks to be the version to which Drane proposed changes via the marked-up version attached to his email dated
20 June 2018.
For example, the first (d) in the ‘Out of Aircraft’ column in the version you posted says: “(d) often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish school work, chores or duties in the workplace …”, and Drane proposed that to be changed to: “(d) often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish assigned work or duties in the workplace …”. The second (d) in that column – note they couldn’t even get the question numbering correct – in the version you posted says: “(d) often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly”, and Drane proposed that be changed to: “(d) often has difficulty engaging in leisure activities quietly”.
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Sunfish: The content of the form is not the sole input to the solemn deliberations of the dabblers in Avmed. For example, as I noted in my post about a complaint made to the ICC about Form 420, the victim was asked to provide a completed Form 420 plus: “Medicare consultation and prescription records for the past five years; academic and employment history; copies of any special reports (such as QEEG or neuropsychological testing); previous specialists reports)”. I say “victim” because – setting aside the confusion and consequential delay and stress created by the Form, which confusion was evident to the ICC – the questions were aimed at ADHD and not the opposite end of the spectrum – ASD - but the form purported to apply to both. That’s what happens when dabblers are left to their own devices.)
The provenance of the questions in the ‘In aircraft’ Column remains a mystery. The disclosed documents include a version with “08/2013” in the footer, and that version includes the column. If I had to bet folding money on who drafted it, I’d say Pooshan Navathe. Navathe describes himself as “an internationally acknowledged thought leader in aviation medicine”. The questions seem to me to have been the product of someone with enough knowledge of operational aviation to be dangerous but not enough knowledge to realise that a student pilot manifesting even a few of the behaviours the subject of the questions wouldn’t be let loose solo in an aircraft by an instructor, irrespective of Avmed’s opinions as to the medical fitness or otherwise of the student.
STOP PRESS: I have been informed by CASA that:
[T]he form 420 is currently being reviewed. An external panel of experts/doctors are reviewing the form, I’m not aware of when this review will conclude.
It’s a pity the form wasn’t created by a panel of experts in the first place. But - hey - who cares about the unnecessary stresses, delays and costs inflicted on CASA Avmed's guinea pigs along the way.