Work starts on new self-declared medical - The CASA Briefing
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Two of the doctors on the Part 67 Technical Working Group appear to also be speakers at the upcoming ASAM Conference starting this Thursday at the Crowne Plaza in the Hunter Valley. Other members of the TWG will also most probably be attending. There will be many DAMEs from all over the country attending including the one I go to. Hopefully the matter of self-declared pilot certification will come up, especially in the session with CASA on Sunday morning.
There is also a session on Saturday where a "Dr Cronin will compare and contrast the United States' Aviation Medical Examination (FAA) system against the Australian Aviation Medical Examination (CASA) system, and provide comment on the differences, as well as any areas that each system can improve off each other." It might be nice for some recommendations from the American medical standards for PPL medical certification to be adopted here in Australia.
There is also a session on Saturday where a "Dr Cronin will compare and contrast the United States' Aviation Medical Examination (FAA) system against the Australian Aviation Medical Examination (CASA) system, and provide comment on the differences, as well as any areas that each system can improve off each other." It might be nice for some recommendations from the American medical standards for PPL medical certification to be adopted here in Australia.
Sad and cynical I know, but...........
My automatic assumption is that CASA is taking an inordinate amount of time and working in secret to create a "Claytons*" self certification system that perverts and sabotages the intent of self certification as implemented in the rest of the world. It takes time to create something that looks good but isn't.
They did this with the basic class 2 medical by requiring an "unconditional" certification from the examining GP - an impossible standard because virtually everyone has had a medical event since childhood and that medical event is a condition even if its fully resolved.
This is about power and control and the idea that CASA will give up any of that is laughable.
** "Claytons" - slang for something that is counterfeit,
My automatic assumption is that CASA is taking an inordinate amount of time and working in secret to create a "Claytons*" self certification system that perverts and sabotages the intent of self certification as implemented in the rest of the world. It takes time to create something that looks good but isn't.
They did this with the basic class 2 medical by requiring an "unconditional" certification from the examining GP - an impossible standard because virtually everyone has had a medical event since childhood and that medical event is a condition even if its fully resolved.
This is about power and control and the idea that CASA will give up any of that is laughable.
** "Claytons" - slang for something that is counterfeit,
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True Sunfish. The word unconditional did sabotage the original intent of the basic medical certificate.
Also both the Class 2 and the Basic Class 2 were 'sledgehammers to crack a walnut" in that both allowed you to fly an aircraft weighing 8,618 kg! I wonder which typical GA aircraft flown by most PPLs weighs that much. Did they think that most of us are swanning around in Super King Airs or Beech 1900s
Also both the Class 2 and the Basic Class 2 were 'sledgehammers to crack a walnut" in that both allowed you to fly an aircraft weighing 8,618 kg! I wonder which typical GA aircraft flown by most PPLs weighs that much. Did they think that most of us are swanning around in Super King Airs or Beech 1900s
