Curious to know what CASA's view on stents in the heart is.Have a mate who had a heart problem a few months ago,ATPL with a command.Had a stent inserted,
6 months off work Medical ok. Back to work.No restrications.

What AVMED requires
 

For Class 1 medical I was required to do a stress test ECG at age 55, all ok, then again at age 60 which revealed a coronary artery that needed a stent. Never had a symptom of any heart problem. Stent surgeon reckoned it too difficult due position therefore recommended open heart surgery, accomplished 100% successful.

Twenty years later, Class 2, still doing annual stress test ECGs for no valid reason according to cardiologist’s written advice.

$300 million pa CASA is a make work salary factory that’s beggaring General Aviation.

Pity help us if push comes to shove and Australia needs GA and it’s pilots, GA maintainers and all the aircraft and infrastructure we have lost.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cd02747cd.jpeg
Here’s a laugh.

...to see what activities can be eliminated...

Aviation in Australia?

Clinton McKenzie

I’m wondering what your thoughts are on CASAs approach to mental health issues.
Primarily PTSD induced depression and anxiety?
Mental health being a very subjective field or the size and effect that these things have, can be a spectrum.


Regards

Its approach is the same as to all 'issues': Interpret it to be 'aero-medically significant', exaggerate the risks to a potential aviation disaster, google up whatever is the 'Rolls Royce' method of dealing with the worst-possible case, inflict that on the guinea pig, no matter the costs and risks to the guinea pig and - most appallingly - despite the opinions of medical professionals with actual expertise in the area and knowledge of the particular person. Then spend months gathering information for input to the solemn deliberations of a 'complex case management meeting' - which is actually an echo chamber of people who've mistaken their positions of power for superior medical expertise - all the while being insouciantly indifferent to the impact on the guinea pig - that is, after all, what guinea pigs are for.

In short: They approach it in the same way as any idiot with access to the internet and a messianic belief that they're the last bastion between aviation safety and carnage would approach it.

Mental health and the Aussie flying training environment.
 

From when I commenced teaching in the 70s, as CFI of my own flying school, it’s always been apparent that the DCA/CAA/DOT/CASA concept of headmaster with big stick was wrong. I’ve seen examples of fear overload leading to avoidable accidents. Like most things in life all things in moderation including fear.
CASA’s excessive, prescriptive and complex rules, that have been inappropriately migrated into the criminal code, contribute to an unhealthy mental state through the fear of becoming a criminal.
Quite apart from formal criminal proceedings, anyone in the GA community can be targeted by CASA, a body with extreme power, ask Glen Buckley and many others.
Mental health, a difficult area to define but we are saddled with a system that’s negative to all who are involved with flying ops.