10-07-2023, 09:58 PM
An ode to the aviation medically vanquished pilots, with nod to Ralph Holland, Michael Webb, Tony Callaghan and Jimmy White.
PS Ralph, the current Basic C2 has to be com. heavy truck ‘unconditional’ meaning that I could drive a truck load of avgas through a city on a (quite common) conditional licence but not fly a VH reg. light aircraft.
The Real and Truthful Version of the Media Release of Ms. Pip Spence’s supposed reform of medical certification for Private Pilots.
We'll open yet another consultation later this month on a proposal that will give Australia's private pilots, mostly for those that don’t need flexibility when it comes to renewing their medical certificates.
We went through the motions of reviewing your responses to last year's medical policy review and other feedback from what’s left of the aviation community to design another clunker medical certification process for general and recreational pilots that will do nothing but frustrate the GA community once again.
Unbelievably, for the umpteen time, we will again, soonish, ask for your views on a proposed Class 5 medical self-declaration knowing that few will bother to comment in the sure knowledge of CASA’s time wasting pretences.
The new Class 5 medical self-declaration, which was flogged half to death in our General Aviation Workplan, will allow a few private pilots who meet our idea of fitness requirements to self-assess and self-declare without the need to see a doctor.
Those who meet the eligibility criteria, like only flying aircraft of restricted weight, no IFR, and satisfy other (totally without rational or statistical basis) 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, much like the current MRS with hundred of questions. Questions including what’s your drug taking habit, your mental stability, your complete medical history, medicines, family medical history etc. and as is the case for all our regs., any found discrepancies shall be treated as criminal offences with strict liability applied.
Access to training modules and comprehensive guidance material will help you make a well-informed and appropriate decision, allow a couple of weeks study, and answer 100% correctly a proposed set of questions to demonstrate your self assessing abilities. Re-sit failed exams after 6 months re-education in a special facility in the dungeons of Aviation Hearse, oops typo ‘House.’
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 (actually already decided) that will exclude numerous operations and discourage various elements of GA yet again leading to less employment and higher costs throughout.
We estimate the new system will cover about 70% of the Australian VH reg GA aircraft fleet, noting that the many thousands of RAAUS and gliding aircraft and pilots are not in contention (and don’t do any aviation medicals). This leaves nearly all of the capable and safe flying twin and heavier aircraft GA pilots still to battle with the monstrous, costly and time consuming current system.
There will, of course, be lots of exceptions and thousands of pilots will still need to see a doctor and be assessed by our so called experts whose employment in AVMED might otherwise be compromised due to lack of work.
The proposal also does not cover riskier activities such as aerobatics, formation flying and night Visual Flight Rules operations, or risky IFR, ag ops, flying in windy conditions or takeoff and landing at other than registered airports.
We believe the Class 5 medical is a world first in terms of trusting pilots because we completely ignore 70 years of successful Australian gliding ops and 40 years of RAAUS same, no aviation medicals. We also pretend that we know nothing of our current failed Basic C2 or the self declared USA BasicMed, UK or NZ models that have been in effect for years. Working on allowing pilots to decide on their own fitness is incredibly involved and we worked diligently and wasting as much time as possible with the aviation medicine technical working group to arrive at a proposal that ensures regulation to a risk profile that has not one fact or statistic to lend a scintilla of evidence to our proposal and is managed inappropriately for the sole benefit of CASA’s employment, power play and salary priorities.
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. In other words our self serving system is already decided and we stretch out the farce as long as possible.
I'd like to acknowledge the contribution of our technical working group on this important initiative and other ongoing considerations for aviation medicine reform because they’ve made us look like we are being busy and serious.
PS Ralph, the current Basic C2 has to be com. heavy truck ‘unconditional’ meaning that I could drive a truck load of avgas through a city on a (quite common) conditional licence but not fly a VH reg. light aircraft.
The Real and Truthful Version of the Media Release of Ms. Pip Spence’s supposed reform of medical certification for Private Pilots.
We'll open yet another consultation later this month on a proposal that will give Australia's private pilots, mostly for those that don’t need flexibility when it comes to renewing their medical certificates.
We went through the motions of reviewing your responses to last year's medical policy review and other feedback from what’s left of the aviation community to design another clunker medical certification process for general and recreational pilots that will do nothing but frustrate the GA community once again.
Unbelievably, for the umpteen time, we will again, soonish, ask for your views on a proposed Class 5 medical self-declaration knowing that few will bother to comment in the sure knowledge of CASA’s time wasting pretences.
The new Class 5 medical self-declaration, which was flogged half to death in our General Aviation Workplan, will allow a few private pilots who meet our idea of fitness requirements to self-assess and self-declare without the need to see a doctor.
Those who meet the eligibility criteria, like only flying aircraft of restricted weight, no IFR, and satisfy other (totally without rational or statistical basis) 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, much like the current MRS with hundred of questions. Questions including what’s your drug taking habit, your mental stability, your complete medical history, medicines, family medical history etc. and as is the case for all our regs., any found discrepancies shall be treated as criminal offences with strict liability applied.
Access to training modules and comprehensive guidance material will help you make a well-informed and appropriate decision, allow a couple of weeks study, and answer 100% correctly a proposed set of questions to demonstrate your self assessing abilities. Re-sit failed exams after 6 months re-education in a special facility in the dungeons of Aviation Hearse, oops typo ‘House.’
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 (actually already decided) that will exclude numerous operations and discourage various elements of GA yet again leading to less employment and higher costs throughout.
We estimate the new system will cover about 70% of the Australian VH reg GA aircraft fleet, noting that the many thousands of RAAUS and gliding aircraft and pilots are not in contention (and don’t do any aviation medicals). This leaves nearly all of the capable and safe flying twin and heavier aircraft GA pilots still to battle with the monstrous, costly and time consuming current system.
There will, of course, be lots of exceptions and thousands of pilots will still need to see a doctor and be assessed by our so called experts whose employment in AVMED might otherwise be compromised due to lack of work.
The proposal also does not cover riskier activities such as aerobatics, formation flying and night Visual Flight Rules operations, or risky IFR, ag ops, flying in windy conditions or takeoff and landing at other than registered airports.
We believe the Class 5 medical is a world first in terms of trusting pilots because we completely ignore 70 years of successful Australian gliding ops and 40 years of RAAUS same, no aviation medicals. We also pretend that we know nothing of our current failed Basic C2 or the self declared USA BasicMed, UK or NZ models that have been in effect for years. Working on allowing pilots to decide on their own fitness is incredibly involved and we worked diligently and wasting as much time as possible with the aviation medicine technical working group to arrive at a proposal that ensures regulation to a risk profile that has not one fact or statistic to lend a scintilla of evidence to our proposal and is managed inappropriately for the sole benefit of CASA’s employment, power play and salary priorities.
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. In other words our self serving system is already decided and we stretch out the farce as long as possible.
I'd like to acknowledge the contribution of our technical working group on this important initiative and other ongoing considerations for aviation medicine reform because they’ve made us look like we are being busy and serious.