a little piece of australian history for you.
after WW2 there was a meeting between the head of our Dept of Civil Aviation and probably the RAAF.
the RAAF was wiped out by the Japanese in the first two weeks of the war.
discussion was on the fact that australian civilian pilots had provided the backbone of the renewed RAAF. the risk of further hostilities meant that the pilots may well be needed in the future to again build up the numbers of the RAAF.
Donald Anderson,head of the DCA, decided that the process of inducting the civilian pilots into the RAAF would be speeded up if the pilots had already passed the RAAF medical. That is why civilian pilots are required to have a medical.
The medical actually has nothing at all to do with civilian flying requirements.
It has always been an air force prescreening medical in the thought that there may have been another war.
hence getting rid of it will have no effect on civilian flying at all.
