Sandy's reply to this week's LMH - 
Medical reform?
“ This issue has been going on for far too long, and now it's time to get it done, easy way or hard way.”
There were great expectations in 2014 from the Government’s General Aviation (GA) inquiry that culminated in the Forsyth Report. It produced some 35 recommendations for reform accepted by government. That inquiry was informed by 269 submissions but the regulatory environment for GA has, arguably, become worse. For one example look at the horrific treatment by CASA of Glen Buckley and the loss of flying schools, some like the Rockhampton Aero Club that have been around for donkey’s years training generations of pilots.
I wrote an article at that time to this magazine at the editor’s invitation entitled “High hopes or Soft Soaps?” As predicted ‘soft soaps’ won hands down. As for medical reform, people seem to have extremely short memories, only about six years ago we given the wonderful new GP assessed Basic Class 2 which was a great idea but required a higher standard (unconditional) than a heavy commercial vehicle standard.
If CASA was genuine it could immediately allow the Basic Class 2 to operate as a GP assessed medical to the same standard as commercial heavy vehicle standard which allows conditions to be imposed, or to the car driver standard. As one pilot who drives fuel tankers wrote, he could drive a tanker full of avgas through a city but wasn’t fit to fly privately according to the Basic Class 2 “reform.”
MTF...P2
Medical reform?
“ This issue has been going on for far too long, and now it's time to get it done, easy way or hard way.”
There were great expectations in 2014 from the Government’s General Aviation (GA) inquiry that culminated in the Forsyth Report. It produced some 35 recommendations for reform accepted by government. That inquiry was informed by 269 submissions but the regulatory environment for GA has, arguably, become worse. For one example look at the horrific treatment by CASA of Glen Buckley and the loss of flying schools, some like the Rockhampton Aero Club that have been around for donkey’s years training generations of pilots.
I wrote an article at that time to this magazine at the editor’s invitation entitled “High hopes or Soft Soaps?” As predicted ‘soft soaps’ won hands down. As for medical reform, people seem to have extremely short memories, only about six years ago we given the wonderful new GP assessed Basic Class 2 which was a great idea but required a higher standard (unconditional) than a heavy commercial vehicle standard.
If CASA was genuine it could immediately allow the Basic Class 2 to operate as a GP assessed medical to the same standard as commercial heavy vehicle standard which allows conditions to be imposed, or to the car driver standard. As one pilot who drives fuel tankers wrote, he could drive a tanker full of avgas through a city but wasn’t fit to fly privately according to the Basic Class 2 “reform.”
MTF...P2