"It's only right that our MPs, law makers, judges across the street should likewise be tested!!! "
stator vane & testpanel,
That similar statement was made to the senate panel by either the ALPA aeromedical chairman or lawyer I mentioned earlier.
The sneering reply from one senator (Fritz Hollings, IIRC) was : "I'm not going to fly a plane load of people to Chicago this afternoon...you are."
They make the rules. If YOU made the rules, you would exempt yourself too.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Frederick Douglass
And we submitted VERY quietly here in the USA. I suppose you will too.
By the way, doctors MAYBE spent more money buying politicians than did airline pilots ? I haven't tracked down what ALPA spent here but docs did this. Note the amount spent on lobbying:
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/sum...068&cycle=2014
Well, found this. Note the amount spent lobbying vs docs. Adjust each to "All Cycles" for the rather significant differences. I'm too lazy to do that for you:
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/sum...117&cycle=2014