But Brissy, according to CASA, it’s a new and much more complicated and scary world compared to the olden days of the Pape and Denison decisions: all those confusing colours in those airport gate signals and complicated modern cockpits. According to CASA, there’s a greater awareness of the safety risk posed by pilots with CVD based upon conclusions drawn from accident and incident investigations.
All that’s really changed is that Part 67 now gives CASA all sorts of powers to intrude into the private and medical lives of individuals. As I said earlier, the busy-work of putting individuals under the medical microscope is no-risk, low-stress employment for bureaucratic do-gooders, indefinitely. All in the name of "air safety" of course.
Meanwhile, almost all, if not all, of the aviation accidents ‘caused’ by pilots have nothing to do with CVD or medical problems.
But why bother taking on the real problems of aviation safety when there's the busy-work of picking off easy targets. CASA gets paid the same, either way.