Ron,

Glider pilot has no medical and has a heart attack while flying...and crashes. Private pilot has 3rd class medical, heart attack crashes.

Glider pilots have fewer medically related accidents than pilots with medical certificates. Go figure.

Last person you see before you die? A doctor.

Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Galbraith <cfi@instructor.net>
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Sent: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 7:43 pm
Subject: [LML] Re: Safety in our Community of Lancairs



Jeff,
 There are thousands of licensed pilots out there that don't have a medical and don't fly any hours per year. I'd have to say that the percentage of those pilots who have airplane accidents are pretty low. How can you know if a pilot who doesn't have a medical, doesn't have a medically related accident? That statistic just doesn't make any sense to me. So, am I reading this right? Out of all the medically related accidents, more had a medical than didn't? So advocating that no one gets a medical will cut down on the medically related accidents? Sounds like making up a report to prove no point.

Ron

You have great points. Unfortunately we spend millions of dollars on the FAA data and don't get much bang for the buck. Here is an interesting statistic I did last year on the medical certificate issue for a comment I submitted the third class medical NPRM.

Which group of pilots have fewer per capita medically related accidents?

a. Pilots with medical certificates

b. Pilots without medical certificates

Answer is b. Pilots without medical certificates (glider pilots, balloon pilots) have fewer medically related accidents.

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