Originally Posted by
43Inches
What stops a airline pilot flying severely affected by drugs or alchohol, not just damp, but the multitude of other people they have to work with who will notice the condition. What stops an outback Chieftain freight pilot from the same, nothing, the same as the truck driver.
The best person to assess your medical fitness is YOU!
The rules should be self certification with heavy penalties for not following disclosure rules.
There's only one area I disagree with full self certification and that is fatigue, as airlines can weasel the rules to make it difficult and almost punitive to use fatigue leave. So the rules need to be tight around mandatory rest periods and lengths of duty. FRMS as it is is a joke, compared to truck driving duty limits.
Exactly. So if self-declared Class 5 medicals become a thing and are deemed by all to pose no risk to safety vis-a-vis Class 1 and 2 then what's the point of seeing a DAME over your local GP? And why not get rid of the Avmed oversight and ditch Class 1 and 2 altogether?
Shouldn't Class 2 Basic be good enough to cover commercial ops and let everyone else go free??