[pabianice]

>>Maybe a few facts would have helped. Here is the significant portion of the bill below. It removes the 3rd class medical and replaces it with no medical. Oh, that’s right, a mere “driver’s license” is the “medical”, as though we don’t have enough Glaucoma patients driving around or elderly with heart conditions or reflex issues. Now, these elderly and medically dysfunctional people want pilot’s licenses. The only people pushing to remove the 3rd class medical are those that have failed 3rd class medicals.

Nope. In part, to use a driver's license as a medical one has had to have held a 3rd class or better within the past ten years. If a medical has been failed or revoked, you would not be able to fly on a driver's license. Sport pilots have no medical requirement. In the last ten years there have been zero fatal accidents from sport pilot sudden incapacitation. Get the facts.

[CodeToad]

You can claim anything you want but the fact remains there are plenty of people that should not be driving based on current law involving driver’s licenses yet you want to allow those very same people to fly planes?

[CodeToad]

What is so wrong about 3rd class medical in the first place? $95 every 2 years and 15 minutes of your time? THAT is a problem for you?