Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Medical NOT required???

Ah see, here's where you go wrong. The FAA and NTSB are surly lawyered up. So a lawyer with any sort of litigious sense is going to fight hard to keep this going because a. if it reduces the size of the FAA/NTSB they could get their job handed to them. All they have to say is "what if we get sued by the first person who is injured because we 'didn't' do a medical and crashed/killed someone"...

Everyone in any sort of position to make the change will say, nope, I don't want that responsibility on my hands...

Damn lawyers... ;D

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Roger Poyner <rogpoyn@...> wrote:
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> Justification should be simple.  The FAA and NTSB have the data base now.  Any
> thing to save money should be easy to get approved.  I doubt if any of the
> alphabet organizations will even try to hold it back.  Just a matter of
> operating limitations on the license that they are going to have to reissue with
> photos anyway.  Seems like a no brainer to me.  Roger P
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> From: doug_fm <dfmoeller@...>
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 9:36:51 AM
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Medical NOT required???
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> This was a topic a couple of years ago when the EAA or AOPA (I don't recall
> which org) requested the elimination of the medical for rec pilots. At that
> time, the FAA said they were waiting on more data to justify that request. That
> data is now here. I've done some searches on the FAA accident database, and I
> can't find a single case of a sport pilot crash that wouldn't have happened if
> he had a medical. Granted, I may be doing an incomplete search, but I do believe
> it is indicative of the situation. Albeit, since the FAA are bureaucrats, it
> will require "smack you in the face" data to move them, but I really do believe
> at some point they will have to remove the requirement.
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> In fact, I see an overhaul of the pilots ratings coming. Merging of Sport, Rec,
> and Private tickets without medicals. Maybe some restructuring of the priviliges
> to go with it.
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> The notion of cost savings to the FAA is the key point here. All government
> agencies are being pushed to reduce costs. The FAA could really save some money
> with this proposal. They just need to justify it.
>

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