Medical privacy.

[gulfairs]

How many questions must one submit answers to, can CAA ask for a ppl or Rpl?
NZ caa in excess of 70,
Brit CAA own medacal examiner knowledge only.
Faa 20 in total
JAA same as Brits.
Any one with half a brain will not fly if one feels off colour.
What in the hell has ones Fathers death over 50 years ago got to do with a medical application?
Have I had a cold ? yes.
Have I had a hang over, Yes

MMMMM. may be i am not a fit and proper person to be flying an airoplane!
Go Away!!!

NZ CAA are determined to reduce the horrific accident rate in our little country.
STOP ALL FLYING then No accidents.

They are having success.

BBG

[homonculus]

Sorry, dont know which 'CAA' or JAA form you filled out, but mine had lots of questions, and when the subanswers were added went near the NZ number.

We all hate forms, but I am not sure what the winge is. Incapacitation in the air kills pilots, passengers and the public. Ensuring you are not an unacceptable risk involves a lot of questions simply because non doctors dont understand the relevance; your ignorance of your father's death being significant - he may have had an inherited musculoskeletal disorder so you would need to be excluded - makes my point.

If the quaestions allow the AME to more easily exclude issues in your medical history so much the better.

If NZ grounds pilots for being left handed you have a winge, but if they ask you loads of questions and then give you a medical you dont.

[gulfairs]

You appear to have missed my point.

I could wade through the whole 70 odd questions.But that is only emulating NZCAA.
The whole issue is Pilot incapacitation.
The records show that the in flight incapacitation runs at less than the mechanical incapacitation of the equipment being flown by quite a significant margin.
New Zealand is probably the most PC country in the Western world.
We can pick fly-**** out of pepper in a dark room with blinkers on.
So why take pills as a Prophylactic in the form of repeating the same questions over and over again.
Should you read Page 4 of the forms, (CAA24067/001) CAA require you to forgo all of your civil privacy and liberty rights under the pain of imprisonment if you make or have made an error in the marathon of repeating the form filling exercise.
I have held CAA document(their words) for over 50 years and over this period, I can be sure that at some stage some of my answers were inconsistent. IE Q20.62 Any day surgery?
Yes: I cut my hand and needed sutures.25 years ago. Is that relevant this year and was it 25 or 23 years ago?
I enjoy flying and I learn something every time I fly an aircraft.
But now its become a war of procedures and its time to take my learnt information out of the industry.

ATPL NZ,US,IRE,UK,LUX,AU.Bcat, Dcat.