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

Agreed...

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, b d <gpabruce@...> wrote:
>
> I always love it when someone injects a comment like "Ah see, here's where
> you go wrong." Up at the levels that are being discussed here, there is no
> right or wrong, there are *higher profits and lower profits only*. The term
> "right and wrong" are things we try to convince our kids so we can keep them
> reigned in and it is also the referring to the rules and regulations
> applying to the "small people" on main street, like red lights and stop
> signs opossed to the "big people on wall street hense the terms "big
> government" v. "small government". They aren't talking about size, they are
> refering to who is being regulated and ruled. The Small people or the Big
> and Wealthy. Most of us, are in the Small people category even though we
> like to think we are wealthy because we own a plane or two.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Brian <brian@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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 <Sport_Aircraft%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > Roger Poyner <rogpoyn@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: doug_fm <dfmoeller@>
> > > To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com <Sport_Aircraft%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 9:36:51 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Medical NOT required???
> > >
> > > Â
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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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