Nugatory purgatory.
Doc # 306: the argument is circular and probably redundant. Had the Avmed ever intended to progress to a revised DAME 'sign-off' system, the process would have started with a letter saying that a new system was being considered, discussion sought and a pathway mapped. It certainly would not involve sending letters spouting some half assed, insupportable bull**** relating to CVD.
A progressive regulator would send letters saying we are initiating a new system and 'You' need to tick boxes 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 should you wish to be one of the super DAME approved to issue a full 12 month certificate; otherwise tick boxes 1,2,3 to have CASA continue to oversight your professional assessment.
The proposition, as stated is flawed; wrong on a couple counts, not least of all insinuating to those who hold a DAME delegation – the inference is that without advanced 'qualification' over and above those presently required, only being allowed to assess under CASA 'supervision' the DAME is, in some way, 'sub-standard, despite some of those DAME being able to sign off FAA and CAA medicals.
Then the liability insurance ploy; this is a risible nonsense. I'm sure any competent insurance risk assessor would tell you that, even if it were remotely true, at the worst a pilot medical would be what, $20 more expensive, and that a scam to cover the almost non existent matrix risk.
The risk of a pilot 'medical' condition being causal to an accident under the present regime is almost mathematically negligible. Ship, train and coach drivers don't often keel over behind the wheel, they carry lots of passengers and operate under 'stressful' conditions, in high risk environments at times; and the doctors doing their medical assessment aren't having nervy turns after signing one off; neither are the insurance companies. How about the Doc's who do life insurance medicals, they don't need to scamper off to 'Mummy' to make an assessment, do they now. No, of course they don't, so this little red-herring runs the risk of becoming risible...
So on balance, post #306 is, in light of USA, UK and other 'enlightened' countries experience rendered well and truly nugatory; and of value only to supporting an increasingly inefficient, bureaucratic, self aggrandising edifice, which offers DAME not education but insult, in the land of nugatory regulatory purgatory.
Sorry chum, need to do better than that to sell that particular bill of goods to the IOS.
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Last edited by Kharon; 3rd Jul 2014 at 01:52.
Reason: The Dodo is a thing of the past. Or it bloody well should be..