greybeard

You should try it with hypertension ( been under control and all tests within young healthy person spec for over 15 years) and I tripped the type 2 diabetes around the same time (also under control with diet and never tripped the limits since for a similar period). I just gave up after the annual medical requirement, best part of $1k of out of pocket tests (stress test doctor was getting pissed off at the waste of time and effort testing me when he could be spending his time on sick people) and the four month+ turn around for casa to tick box. Medical delays always put me out of currency. Just for the record, you might have guessed, I'm not dead yet!

Wouldn't the manifold pressure give it away? Been a few years since I did my CSU but I seem to recall that was the goto power check instrument.

I've told you a million times not to exaggerate or stereotype ?

Definitely don't use bird seed

When I was training I found that looking at how hard the instructors hand was squeezing his knee was a good indicator of when to flare

Well spotted Mike re: Class 2 exclusion.But I've been tripped with high blood pressure, under control within a few weeks of diagnosis, due to medication taken, nailed with CASA audit, then type 2 diabetes, no medication, just diet control. All tests for the last 4 years clear but CASA still insisting on ~$1k/annum for additional tests. So, the medical tests are good in one way, but given my DAME (and previous DAME) think they are unwarranted and both are happy to sign off my class 2, CASA experts are concerned that i'll drop of the perch without the additional tests. With hindsight, I'd recommend going to a different GP than your DAME, getting normal health checkup, then deciding if you want to let CASA in on your health history.

Problem is when you fall over the ECG stress test limit, even for class 2. Pretty easy to do, all you need to do is be over 60 for a male. Unless you have lower than average cholesterol or blood pressure to give a -ve score. My DAME thinks it's a joke all of the testing, similar comments from the Optical and Stress test people. I've given up paying ~$1k/annum for a class 2.

There'll be a point to this discussion eventually, can someone let me know so I can skip over all of the member measurement?

Why spoil a site tradition of rushing into a conclusion. Hope all praties concerned are ok.

The 'nagging problems' isn't just a couple of the members of this forum posting their usual is it?

Or you could stop being pedantic, remove head from orifice, consider the intent of the regulation and don't drink and fly. If you're worried about the threshold of how much booze is in your system, then there is a fair chance that you've had to much. Reckon you could nail a piece of string to a post and some of you guys would argue about it for days.

Aviation Utopia

I'm guessing that's a couple less Christmas cards i need to send out this year. I'll get on with my travel plans to the land of sexual congress then.

It's all about the shiniest mousetrap

Article dated feb 2016. Has it got any further traction in the last 6 months apart from registering a company?

Watch the instructors hands, when they go tense and white gripping their knees it's time to flare. Look at the end of the runway as you round out

It's just like Airservices updating new documents every 5 minutes, just because they can. Leave it alone. Get a different hobby.

To blame the decline in private pilots solely on the cost of a class 2 medical is absurd. Does the cost of a class 2 have an impact, in my case at least, yes. I hold a PPL, I stopped flying a few years ago when I needed to divert funds to raising my family rather than punching holes in the air. My choice. Then I debated renewing my medical and retraining to retain my PPL privileges or going down the RAA path. Initially the cost comparison (for my personal cost point of view as opposed to flying costs) was between a class 2 medical every 2 years (over 40 years old) and RAA fees every year. The balance in my case went towards staying with my PPL. Then I hit a snag. I fell over the edge and was found to have just tipped the edge of type 2 diabetes. Now I'm up for the best part of ~$1k per annum for a class 2. Get to see my DAME, have a special visit to an eye doc and a cardio every year then my DAME and all the specialists get to have their (and my) answers checked by CASA (took them 5 months last time). To see if I'll fall off the perch before my next medical. All the specialists I visit want to know why I'm wasting their time when they have actual sick people they could be treating. I'm wondering why I'm urinating so much money against the wall for no valid medical reason apart from I'm daft enough to want to live in Australia and practice aviation. So, it might be just me but, my contribution to actual aviation is in decline as a result of CASA and their unique aviation medical requirements. Or it could be that Australian aviators are more likely to fall off the perch than non Australian aviators.

where there is a will there is (a)way

errrr, to/from in the email don't seem to impart the same message as the thread title.

Site appears to be running fine yet again

Yes up again !!!! What a bummer having to check the status of a website on another website. Maybe they should use a web status site like 'Status Cake' www.statuscake.com to keep an eye on the website state.

ditto also checked it just after the previous reported problem. unfortunately it's not always obvious where the actual problem/issue is when people report problems with accessing a website. It's a pretty long chain of 'single points of failure' between a web browser and a web site. add into the equation a desire to return to an RAA (or a takeover by rec aviation) based web advertising solution and things can appear dire. Suppose it dampens the enthusiasm when you can't snap up that aviation bargain within hours (or days, weeks ..... ) of it being advertised. sigh

Darwin's Theory -- super glue on the overhead locker handles

Mike-Perth. I also had a few things picked up by my class 2 medical that I wasn't aware of that would have pushed me off the perch quicker than I hope for. Whilst the class 2 is a partial pain and yet another cost I could live with it if it was just the class 2 every couple of years. Unfortunately once you get pinged for anything the costs start to ramp up rapidly for what (my DAME and) I believe re excessive and duplicated tests. I have a perpetual cost to try and continue keeping my class 2 every year. This includes std class 2 medical, special trip to CASA rated optometrist for (what seems like) the same eye test that the DAME has given me (extra $250/annum) , special trip to the tredmill for a stress test and cardio report from a cardio who wants to know why I'm wasting their time when sick people need to be treated (~$600/annum), annual vampire test at the pathologist. And to get all of this done requires trying to coordinate appointments with specialists that can have waiting lists of 1-2 months. So, as you say, it's a good thing that your DAME picked up on your hypertension (me too, I've forecast your future with and annual tredmill and cardio report) and 'a' visit to a specialist as directed by your GP is a good thing if they recommend it. But the change from every two years for an over 40 class 2 medical to annual and the ~$1k all up cost is just taking the piss. Oh, just to rub salt into the wound, the last two years CASA have 'lost' the reports from my DAME and specialist causing months of delay. Last medical I did in December last year came through in May this year, still with an annual expiry date in December this year. I'm used to the class 2 medical and every couple of years seems to be ok with me, if nothing else it makes me visit a doctor for a checkup and oil change, but if a DAME needs special training from CASA (and it's expensive training), why isn't the DAME good enough to say if I am dead or not? Why all the specialists reports? CASA need to held to account to justify why specific requirements are in place and it should be part of their charter to unregulate themselves out of a role.