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Su_Spence Class 5 medical consultation?? -   

Via latest CASA (Bollocks) Briefing:

Director of Aviation Safety, Pip Spence

We'll open consultation later this month on an eagerly awaited proposal that will give most of Australia's private pilots unprecedented flexibility when it comes to renewing their medical certificates.

We reviewed your responses to last year's medical policy review and other feedback from the aviation community to design a streamlined medical certification process for general and recreational pilots.

As a result, we will shortly ask for your views on a proposed Class 5 medical self-declaration.

The new Class 5 medical self-declaration, which was flagged in our General Aviation Workplan, will allow private pilots who meet fitness requirements to self-assess and self-declare without the need to see a doctor.

Those who meet the eligibility criteria and satisfy the requirements will have a Class 5 self-declared medical automatically issued.

The self-assessment would see applicants answer a simple set of questions using CASA's current online systems.

Access to training modules and comprehensive guidance material will help you  make a well-informed and appropriate decision.

Adoption of the proposal will mean that most people who fly the majority of hours in private operations will be able to apply for a Class 5 medical self-declaration, noting the medical exclusions and operational limitations.

We estimate the new system will cover about 70% of the Australian aircraft fleet.

There will, of course, be exceptions and some people will still need to see a doctor.

The proposal also does not cover riskier activities such as aerobatics, formation flying and night Visual Flight Rules operations.

We believe the Class 5 medical is a world first in terms of trusting pilots to decide on their own fitness and we worked diligently with the aviation medicine technical working group to arrive at a proposal that ensures regulation is proportionate to risk and is managed appropriately.

We're already working on the systems that will support the new self-declaration process and we aim to go live as soon as practicable, following the outcomes of the public consultation.

I'd like to acknowledge the contribution of our technical working group on this important initiative and other ongoing considerations for aviation medicine reform.

Consultation on a second key initiative from our General Aviation Workplan, this time aimed at addressing the shortage of Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (LAMEs), opened last month and runs until Thursday 12 October.

A product of extensive industry consultation through the Part 66 technical working group, this proposes changes to the Part 66 Manual of Standards that would allow us to introduce ‘modular’ licensing for aircraft engineers.

It aims to address the considerable time associated with an engineering apprenticeship and the difficulties associated with retraining maintenance engineers who have spent a long time out of the industry.

It will also assist foreign licence holders seeking a qualification to work in Australia.

We plan to introduce the modular system in two phases.

In stage 1, we plan to amend the Part 66 MOS by the end of this year to enable Category B1 and B2 licences to be issued with exclusions.

A person who has only completed the general training and modules for piston engines, for example, could be granted a modular licence to work in that area.

But the exclusions would mean they couldn't work on airframes or other systems without completing the relevant training modules and experience.

In short, it will allow everybody who wants to become an engineer to get a licence to do certain things sooner than they would be able to do if they had to complete the full licence.

Most people will be able to expand their licences in Stage 1, should they choose to, through an approved maintenance training organisation.

Stage 2, which we aim to introduce next year, will expand the pathways to remove exclusions through a self-study pathway which is used by a small but important cohort.

This will help people in regional areas who have trouble accessing maintenance training organisations.

These two important GA Workplan initiatives have been complex issues for us to work through, but we’re confident they’re positive developments and deliver some of the benefits being sought by industry while maintaining an appropriate level of safety.

All the best,

Pip

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Comments in reply, via FB:

Ralph Holland


These are observations and opinions;

Can you really believe that the CASA medical authoritarian public servants, delegates and consultants will divest their power and authority to the likes of pilots like you and me to self/assess their medical status?

What data analysis did they use to derive 70 percent of the fleet when we are actually talking about pilots and not aeroplanes? Does that seem mixed up to you like it does to me?
Can you believe that they won’t have notes in their licensing software and on your pilot certificate stating medical review required , and that will be removed?

So you believe their statement World first is correct when other ICAO states have obviously been there first?

Obviously they employ good technical and media release writers, it reads well, but we care about semantic content and action.

Yet another survey when they should already be informed over all these years.

The lack of progress, the push back installation of exceptions and restrictions is one way to ensure this never happens just like the last medical announcement that turned out to be at commercial truck driver standard, meanwhile the delegated RAUS self-management company continue to operate and grow promoting the demise of General Aviation numbers.

I looks like the typical delaying tactics employed of inaction when they don’t want to support or listen to industry.

They send out surveys, they get the responses they don’t like to hear or agree with, so they send out another survey. They have already been asked to adopt a consistent practice as other ICAO States have adopted. The same goes for all their legislation they have to write their own with CASA flavoured nuances so it appears they can justify budget to keep the factory operating.

Safe Skies are Empty Skies!

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Michael Webb

Will be interesting to see the list of limitations CASA will impose. You can bet it will mean very little to those people who are being discriminated against yet perfectly capable of flying safely.

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Tony Callaghan

Yeah and when you get knocked back on a class 2 medical and then you self assess only to find that they refer back to your class 2 application and your self assessment then also gets declined.

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Jimmy White

The Lunatics are obviously still running the asylum

Hmmm...???



   

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