"What gives theses stupid, uninformed bureaucrats the right to take away his right to fly?"
Now let me think. When a pilot of an aircraft becomes incapacitated because of a medical problem does:
a) he release the "dead mans handle" on the control column, the aircraft sense this, fly to the nearest ILS equipped airfield and land safely or
b) the aircraft crash, possibly on me?
It ain't just the pilot that gets hurt when an aircraft goes down....