[Sandy Reith]

The Class 5 ‘PIR’ will spend much time and effort considering the opinions of themselves and will certainly overlook facts such as 31 years of successful RAAUS low weight category self declared medicals, similarly in excess of 70 years of GFA ops, including that they have been flying in CTA with never a medical problem.

Then there’s all the stats from the USA all of which show conclusively, like it or not, that there’s zero evidence that aviation specific medicals have any relevance to the safety of civil aviation, any more than would an aviation type medical certification system if applied to private motor car drivers.

And as far as making “ good” submissions to avoid your best thoughts being binned at the outset by the CASA make work industry, quite so.
Be awfully polite and realise that CASA people have feelings too, be nice. And don’t mention all the other CASA mess ups like Glen Buckley, whatever you do.

By the way how clever was it to create the C5 with a weight limit of 2000kg? They didn’t bother to go downstairs to their registration people to see how that would sit. Early C337 in, later models out. Same with the Piper Seneca, or TravelAir in but Baron out. Plain stupid, not to mention not allowed IFR because, as I was told by a senior CASA manager, IFR is too difficult.
He was a former GA pilot, or so he told me.