Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
Mark, This was discussed here a couple of months ago. It saves you $75 every two years that would be used to register your Class2 with CASA and you have to put up with the limitations. Otherwise it is useless as if you can make the declaration and have your GP pass you as fit a DAME would pa

Re: [Aus-soaring] Initial issue medicals driver's licence

2013-10-13 Thread Tim Shirley
>> Doctors aren't time travelers, right? That depends whether you are “a” doctor or “the” doctor. Cheers Tim Tra dire e fare c’è mezzo il mare From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Mark Newton Sent: M

Re: [Aus-soaring] Initial issue medicals driver's licence

2013-10-13 Thread Mark Newton
On Oct 14, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Chris Runeckles wrote: > You can only medically self declare for solo pilot status, anything else > (A.E.I. upwards) need to be medically certified : You're missing my point. If you fly immediately after receiving your medical certification, you're medically cert

Re: [Aus-soaring] Initial issue medicals driver's licence

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Runeckles
You can only medically self declare for solo pilot status, anything else (A.E.I. upwards) need to be medically certified : From 1 January 2013 pilots holding a GFA Instructor authorisation (i.e. AEI, Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3) must be medically examined by a legally qualified medical practiti

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Mark Newton
This is increasingly academic given that CASA have already decided to remove the requirement for class-2 medicals for private flight, with limitations. http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD:1001:pc=PC_100908 The scheme should be live at the end of this year, and applies to all hold

Re: [Aus-soaring] Initial issue medicals driver's licence

2013-10-13 Thread Mark Newton
On Oct 14, 2013, at 2:37 PM, "Texler, Michael" wrote: > Great! You can medically self declare here in WA for your initial, no > requirement to see a doctor! You medically self-declare before every flight. That class-2 medical certificate you received 23 months and 29 days ago only certifies

[Aus-soaring] Initial issue medicals driver's licence

2013-10-13 Thread Texler, Michael
Great! You can medically self declare here in WA for your initial, no requirement to see a doctor! You only need to see a doctor when you are 80 years old... ;-) http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/mediaFiles/licensing/LBU_F_DL_MDL1_Driver sLicenceApplication.pdf http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals, BGA, ASA, Ballooning USA

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
Michael, I think you will find that the BGA requirement now is different from the one that applied in the 1970s when the study I referred to was done. The BGA got done over by European harmonisation We're all just trying to go flying with the minimum fuss and bother. It is all too easy to st

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Texler, Michael
Thanks Mike and Carol, That's Gold, OK, bring it on. Implement it and see what happens! Unless I have completely mis read it again, an initially medical issuance would still be required (i.e. Driver's licence initial issue requires a medical and this is used in lieu)? Then attendanc

[Aus-soaring] Medicals, BGA, ASA, Ballooning USA

2013-10-13 Thread Texler, Michael
Thanks Mike. Noted. > I'm not sure you actually read my post. Either that or your reading comprehension is extremely poor. Mike, I have carefully re-read your posts. You said: >The BGA did a study many years ago of 800 glider accidents in the UK. IIRC about 5 may have had a medical component...

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
Carol did a little search and turned this up: http://www.eaa.org/news/2012/petition_for_exemption.pdf 41 pages, page 11 has this heading if you don't want to read it all. Equivalent level of safety is demonstrated in history This petition for exemption is backed by sound statistical data Conti

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 09:45 AM 14/10/2013, you wrote: OK >I'm not sure you actually read my post. Either that or your reading comprehension is extremely poor. Mike Borgelt stated. >One study in the US was that medical conditions for powered aircraft pilots were around 1% of accident causes. Fortunately they

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread tom . wilksch
Well said! Tom  - Original Message - From: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." To:"Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Cc: Sent:Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:31:59 +1030 Subject:Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals [ Simon pops up and makes a rare comment ] Mike,

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Texler, Michael
OK >I'm not sure you actually read my post. Either that or your reading >comprehension is extremely poor. Mike Borgelt stated. >One study in the US was that medical conditions for powered aircraft pilots >were around 1% of accident causes. Fortunately they had a large body of >experience with

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Simon Hackett
[ Simon pops up and makes a rare comment ] Mike, I'm sure you mean well, but attacking the person rather than the issue isn't good form - on any mailing list. Debates of this sort work much better without ad hominem attacks. They can often lead to impugning people who seriously are not deservi

Re: [Aus-soaring] [FWD: Interesting article on research into dynamic soaring.]

2013-10-13 Thread Jim Staniforth
Believe the video in Cath's post was previously used by Paul MacCready in his presentation at the 2005 SSA convention. The RC glider speed record video appears to be from Parker Mountain, a "D-S" site for a decade or more. You can imagine how many RC gliders have hit the dirt there at a vast

Re: [Aus-soaring] [FWD: Interesting article on research into dynamic soaring.]

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 07:16 AM 14/10/2013, you wrote: http://youtu.be/Vi0hrjqU15I Been doing it for some time. World record is IVO 450mph Sent from my iPhone If I was anywhere near that thing I'd want to be behind a 2" thick Lexan shield. It is interesting how "researchers" kee

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
Nice conjecture, but unfortunately for you the BGA DIDN'T have a formal medical requirement at the time so there was no "filtering" by formal medical. Same for the US glider and balloon pilots and both are based on a large number of events so the stats, even if somewhat uncertain, are likely pr

Re: [Aus-soaring] [FWD: Interesting article on research into dynamic soaring.]

2013-10-13 Thread James Dutschke
http://youtu.be/Vi0hrjqU15I Been doing it for some time. World record is IVO 450mph Sent from my iPhone On 14/10/2013, at 6:01, "Greg Wilson" wrote: > Brilliant! Thanks Cath. > > It occurs to me that the path of the albatross' flight is very similar to > that of a surfer using the power of a

[Aus-soaring] [FWD: Interesting article on research into dynamic soaring.]

2013-10-13 Thread Greg Wilson
Brilliant! Thanks Cath.It occurs to me that the path of the albatross' flight is very similar to that of a surfer using the power of an ocean wave to move forward.If they're going to have drones doing this I hope they them well away from airports.Cheers,Greg. Original Message Su

Re: [Aus-soaring] Medicals

2013-10-13 Thread Texler, Michael
Methinks there is some false logic in that argument. A counter argument is that the aviation medical system has kept people out of the skies that shouldn't be flying due to medical reasons . (that is, the medicals are filtering out those who are unfit to fly and hence that the cause of incidents