Originally Posted by
Sandy Reith
Pilot health would improve markedly through lack of stress if AVMED was abolished. Car driver standard is sufficient.
Safety of commercial flight would, if anything, improve due to increased competition by virtue of ease of entry and lower cost of training if the CASA regulatory environment was better standardised to the USA, logical, timely and at lower cost.
In my opinion the primary reason for the substantial improvement in safety would come from pilots being more willing to have more frequent and frank discussions with medical professionals, without the fear of damaging AvMed overreactions.
Originally Posted by
Sandy Reith
Reform can only happen if CASA is moved into a Department of Government.
Not the solution in the current socio-political context, IMO.