Yep, drpixie, this IS the current version of the Christmas Eve fax. All 45 pages of it.
AOPA have pushed for a similar medical standard to that which will be used in the USA for PRIVATE PILOTS. The UK has brought in something similar.
Porter, nobody is even questioning the Class 1 yet CASA puts this and many other considerations on the table and has pulled the wool over the Minister's eyes.
The medical isn't for YOUR benefit, it is a risk mitigation exercise to protect people on the ground and others in the air. There is a complete lack of evidence that it does any good. Both in the US and Australia glider pilots operate on a self certification basis and RAAus pilots in Australia on a State car driver's licence (around 40% of pilots in Australia) so the experiment has been run for decades. You are at greater risk of killing an innocent pedestrian or a car full of of passengers coming the other way in the event of sudden incapacitation than you are of hurting anyone else in a small aircraft for the same reason.
Regulation should be evidence based and if there is no evidence, it should be abolished.
The CASA paper looks to me like a calculated insult to AOPA Australia.
CASA will manage to keep this whole thing going for decades to avoid taking action.