Hi Mike, >CASA has a discussion paper up on medicals, released just before Christmas, >but as usual is making a mountain out of a molehill despite there being an >ATSB report showing that medical incapacitation from 1975 to 2006 was 98 >incidents/accidents out of 160,000 and some of the 98 are intestinal >distress(food poisoning), hypoxia/carbon monoxide poisoning >(maintenance/operational causes), breaking F/O's collarbone during emergency >evac of a 747, getting hit by prop or rotor blade on ground etc. Doesn't >actually leave much particularly when you realise that most of the remaining >actually had a Class 2 or Class 1 aviation medical.
Only 98 medical incidents out of 160,000. Must mean that the medical health screening had been working between 1975 to 2006!!! If most of these are from gastro, perhaps pilots need food safety training!! (Runs and hide... Again...) _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
