Almost all of the private aviation accidents and incidents occur with a pilot having a current medical. As most of you know (and I will attest to as a physician), the medical does very little to identify pending health problems. Dan C
On Jul 4, 2010, at 12:33 PM, James B. Brennan wrote: > >> In my humble opinion, private pilots should not require medical certificates >> at all. Commercial and above (where you could be taking passengers for hire) >> should. > > Absolutely!!! AOPA has the stats to support this (off the top of my head, it > is something like less than 2% of accidents having a medical problem. I > think that there is a fat bureaucracy mucking with medicals that we cannot > get rid of... a veritable parasite (not that this is new to the Federal > "function"). > > Beach Brennan > > NC93963 > WST (RI) > >
