C5, the reform when you are not having one.
C5, perhaps the most stupid ‘reform’ you could imagine, is based, according to Ms. Spence, on the success of RAAUS 40 years no problem. No mention of GFA 70 yr plus.
And she says it’s a ‘world first?’ How can you quote 40 yr RAAUS, currently c. 10,000 members, with no medicals to justify your ‘world first?’
It beggars belief.
Next look at 2000kg, you can fly your early model (just under 2000kg) C337 but not the later models just over. Seneca 1 but not the later model Senecas. Beech twin TravelAir but not your Baron, nearly identical systems.
But then really blow your mind you own a four or six seater and you can only carry 2POB. Why? Because RAAUS doesn’t crash due medical incapacitation and that must surely be due to only having 2POB.
By the way your four and six seat aircraft are less useful and therefore to some extent devalued.
This really is all so logical as long as you don’t think about it.
More ramifications for GA :- disincentive for IFR training and IFR X-country flights therefore more VFR into IMC accidents. Less work for instructors and flying schools, less experience in the safest form of flying which is the IFR environment.
Similarly C5 bans formation flying and aerobatics, again disincentive to improve skills.
And according comment here CASA require to access all you medical records. Question, what about human rights to privacy? Can ‘Big Brother’ ever be satisfied? Imagine all your records, over maybe 60 years, and allowing AVMED to troll through the lot. It’s obscene and there’s zero evidence that aviation specific medical examinations make one iota of difference to the safety of flight. Yes you might have instance of medical help to an handful of individuals.
The previous ‘reform,’ the C2 Basic was supposed to be the answer to the USA’s BasicMed. Read the fine print and note that ‘unconditional’ heavy commercial vehicle means that you can drive a truck load of avgas through any city on your conditional truck licence but not fly your Cessna privately with a Basic C2.
That makes sense doesn’t it? My head is being done in again.
If medical incapacitation is such a threat why not at least the same treatment to the drivers of motor vehicles? Surely we are all at far more risk on our crowded roads than flying over mostly sparsely populated areas?
You have to be disgusted at what CASA has done to GA, I’ve watched hundreds of flying schools and charter operators go out of business Australia wide. I see airline pilots come in on 457 visas. Aviation engineering and manufacturing go O/S and thousands of Aussie pilots squeezing into 600kg AUW RAAUS aircraft, not because those aircraft are suited to Australian conditions, but because there’s no AVMAD medicals.
Yes I know that RAAUS is going up to 760kg and it would be better not to have the weight and administration split, the whole lot should be through a Department of Government which follows the democratic principle of responsible government in the Westminster system.