Part 103 equivalent in Australia

[turboplanner]

28 minutes ago, facthunter said:

They don't HAVE to get put off the roads They SHOULD be treated. Many do and are living Normal lives. You have the wrong take on it. DID you read my post about 3 back where I covered this. OPEN heart surgery pilots have gotten back in the Air with 1 st ATPL level. We don't HAVE to live in the DARK ages Medically.  Nev

If you are talking to me, I wasn't about to write a thesis just for a few cheats.

Yes, if you make a truthful declaration there are pathways back. It was the BS declarations where someone has been sick for some time but won't give up his daily trip down to the RSL etc, or knows he has pains but won't go to a specialist and keeps on flying until one day it's all over.

[facthunter]

The IDEA should NOT be to "Ground People". That's too easy and unfair. and the attitude we have had to resist all along. These silly medicals go back to the Military as a method of selection when FLAT FEET  and such trivial things would exclude you. You had to be the fittest of the fit to be a sitting duck in the Airforce.   Nev

[Geoff_H]

48 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

You're looking at it back to front. Of course there is a tiny risk, of course people still die immediately after checks and always did.

 

However the diagnostics pick up many in the community with major problems and take those people of the roads and out of the air. 

 

The self reported system is problematic with a few too may cases of a crash on the road or from the air and everyone saying "Nooooooooo" we never even knew he had a bad heart." You will have seen the reassurances of "virtually no pilots hjave died from heart attacks in the air". Digital, which records every vaccination you've ever had, every test, every medication you've been put on, will tell you with just a couple of clicks on the phone when you last had a tetanus injection. Authorities can see blood thinners etc too.

 

 

My question really is that is this large financial burden give results that i am safe, well as safe as a younger person,  to fly?  Is it the best thing that CASA is doing?

[turboplanner]

1 minute ago, Geoff_H said:

My question really is that is this large financial burden give results that i am safe, well as safe as a younger person,  to fly?  Is it the best thing that CASA is doing?

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[Geoff_H]

The financial burden of yearly stress, ultrasound and blood tests

[turboplanner]

4 minutes ago, Geoff_H said:

The financial burden of yearly stress, ultrasound and blood tests

That's the normal way of checking there's been no deterioration. At 77 wouldn't costs be covered for that?

[facthunter]

I have never emphasised the risk at the time of doing the test, although those informing ,always mention it as" small" A % is often allied to many other procedures. It's the one that happens a week or more after.. Pilots suffer unexpected Cardiac events like any other person does.' The test has been proven not to be  effective in PREDICTING such events. Pilots encounter a high level of stress in their lives  one of which is not knowing whether they have a job beyond their Next Medical.  AVmed regard their decisions as beyond challenge. even by specialists and experts in the field.  How is THAT OK, especially when the money paid for that Position is relatively low for the qualifications required to do the Job Properly.   Nev

[Geoff_H]

8 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

That's the normal way of checking there's been no deterioration. At 77 wouldn't costs be covered for that?

No $400 a pop.  Only covered when bi yearl

[jackc]

FAR Part 103 Medical? What medical 🤩 They don’t even need a freaking Licence  😁

How smart are they?  A whole lot smarter the us 👍

[turboplanner]

2 hours ago, jackc said:

FAR Part 103 Medical? What medical 🤩 They don’t even need a freaking Licence  😁

How smart are they?  A whole lot smarter the us 👍

Not so smart in Australia; 

As I mentioned, our laws are different  and  there are consequences to flying without a licence and or medical. Not only any prescriptive penalties but paying for the consequences of accidents that hurt or kill people.

[jackc]

6 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Not so smart in Australia; 

As I mentioned, our laws are different  and  there are consequences to flying without a licence and or medical. Not only any prescriptive penalties but paying for the consequences of accidents that hurt or kill people.

Your first line says it all, Australia is run by people who are dumb as a box of rocks.

Aviation, like many segments of life here, is a total mess. Just look at your beloved transport industry Turbs?  Lately I see nothing in the media Bur B Doubles and other combinations with wheels in the air, everywhere and a landscape of dead bodies?  Have all the smart rules fixed  that? 
Have our Los Angeles sized phone books of rules and regulations stopped our Pilots from falling out of the sky? 

Everywhere I look, I see violations of logic and commonsense 🤢 Aviation is no different……
 

[spacesailor]

It is keeping lots of  Bureaucrats in their highly paid employment. 

Finding ways to keep their wheels rolling. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Yawn, ZZzzzzzzzzzzzz Nev