Mike Borgelt wrote:
You mean the entire British Gliding Association? Who fought for years
against any medicals on thwe grounds that it was a lot of money for little
to no demonstrable safety increase backed by statistics on their own
accidents. Most glider accidents are caused by brain failure it seems which
doesn't get picked up in any medicals.
Ah, yes -- But what causes the brain failure?
I know at least one pilot who was diagnosed with hypoglycemia during
a medical. An accident caused by the onset of symptoms in the air could
easily be put down to "brain failure" without the blood sugar imbalance
which lead to the failure ever being discovered.
How many undiagnosed diabetics do you think there are in our aging
pilot population?
"Brain failure". Harumph.
- mark
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