Originally Posted by
Andy
So many US pilots are unsafe due to medical issues? What's your proposed solution? And what you base them being unsafe? Not by hull loss per hours flown; that's declined markedly.
yea because no one here ever “shops” for an AME or says “keep your medical doctor separate from your AME” Does this mean they are unsafe, maybe.. maybe not. I am willing to bet there are many pilots with some underlying condition they do not disclose. For the most part these are probably benign things, but that should they worsen could be catastrophic and they do not disclose out of fear of losing their medical
More rigid medical test would keep pilots from hiding these conditions. Do I necessarily want this, no.. but at the same time there comes a point where they are necessary to keep pilots from putting the public in danger.