Additional Medical Charge from CASA

[DeltaSix]

I am about to renew my Class 1 medical and I was just informed that on top of the doctor's fee, they are under instruction from CASA to collect another $130 as a charge for assessing my medical result. Has anyone been slugged with this recently ?
Apparently it only came out on the 1st of Jan. Did anyone receive a letter about this ?
On top of the AVID and ASIC charge, they are now charging us with a medical fee..... I wonder what's next ?.... :mad:

D6

[185skywagon]

D6,
No offence, but we are/have been doing this subject to death on another thread. Got my notice around early January regarding fee hikes.
:hmm:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=207376

[DeltaSix]

thanks 185skywagon. Didn't mean to hijack the thread.:}

Cheers

D6 :ok:

[Altimeters]

If you want to know all the new fees introduced by CASA, go to page 64 of the current issue of Flight Safety. Absolutely ludacris! :mad:

[Wheeler]

Go RAA (- just take your Drivers Licence)

This lot, ASA and the GAAPs have just lost the plot completely.

RIP GA.

Now just tell me again, why is safe to fly an RAA aircraft with none of that crap but a GA pilot needs every regulation and and every charge they can think of to be safe?

[DeltaSix]

The thing that bugs me is that how can CASA do a medical assessment on the doctor's report when they are not medical professionals ?
This is unlawful to charge a service that they don't really do.

Here goes another letter to Warren Truss and Bruce G.

D6

[Wheeler]

I guess they would argue they ARE medical professionals because they employ real Doctors who know all about aviation medicine. You should see their manual on the CASA website. Wait till you get a slight glitch (maybe you had treatment from a GP or a specialist) on your report. Dr CASA has a look and then if the slightest possibility of Dr CASA being liable, asks for specialists/GP reports - all of which YOU have to pay A FORTUNE for. Then he makes a decision based on that. Hopefully the reports say something like 'not dangerous' so CASA don't have to take any responsibility at all. That's real professional. What a Sham! (- no pun intended) and makes the $130 look like small biccys. Role on RAA!

[185skywagon]

'not dangerous' so CASA don't have to take any responsibility at all.
Is that like Douglas Adam's "mostly harmless"?:E

[Wheeler]

Nah, not really.

Need to be definitely completely harmless in CASA's eyes! (and no way should there be the slightest risk of anything coming back on them.)

So asking again, why is an RAA pilot safe without all that crap, unyet a GA pilot is positive menace to society?

As I've said before, let CASA look after the big boys, they can afford it.

Single engine below say 1400 MAUW really is not that different to RAA. Even the UK CAA acknowledge that now and dont ask for these stoopid medicals for NPPL's - or the associated charges.

OK CASA, you are obviously following UK CAA with your extortionate user pays charges. Now go the next step and let's have a National PPL. You might actually help a few flight schools around here then!

[matana22]

I was incredibly frustrated to find when I got my medical that I had to pay $130, somehow I missed any letters from CASA.
On the bright side it all comes back at tax time.

[Counter-rotation]

"On the bright side it all comes back at tax time" (matana22)
No it doesn't. Unless your employer refunds it as an expense, you end up paying, just not quite as much. You don't seem to understand how tax deductions work...
Hands up who'd like to get all of CASA in a big room and bang their heads together?
Might knock some sense into 'em... Doubt it though.
Biggest collection of useless parasitic b:mad:ds ever assembled under the one banner. First sign of anything resembling hard work and they don't want to know. But money for old rope, yeah we'll be in that. Let's invent a few more charges eh?
Well said Wheeler, RIP GA - butchered by CASA.
CR :yuk:

Edit: Just worked out the quote thingy...

[rmcdonal]

"I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the Display Department."
"With a torch."
"The lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But you found the plans, didn't you?"
"Oh yes, they were 'on display' in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the leopard.'"

Love it:ok:
Thanks Hitchhikers :E