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More on the Sports Pilot/Medical Requirement issue
From the AOPA website:
AOPA meets with FAA to work toward resolution of sport pilot medical Catch-22 AOPA staff attending AirVenture in Oshkosh today met with FAA officials responsible for the sport pilot rule to work toward a resolution of the medical "Catch-22." Both in questions to AOPA's Pilot Information Center (http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...0728sport.html) and at various forums at EAA's AirVenture, pilots have expressed disappointment that if they've been denied a medical in the past, they can't use a driver's license in lieu of a medical to exercise sport pilot privileges. However, a pilot with a similar medical condition who has never applied for a medical, can. "AOPA, along with EAA and other groups, is continuing the dialogue with FAA to find a way to get back to the original intent of sport pilot," said Andy Cebula, AOPA senior vice president of Government and Technical Affairs. "If you're healthy enough to hold a driver's license and you have no current medical condition that would make you unsafe to fly a light-sport aircraft, you should be able to exercise sport pilot privileges." |
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... From the AOPA website: AOPA meets with FAA to work toward resolution of sport pilot medical Catch-22 AOPA ought to go and actually read "Catch-22" so that they know what the term really means. Nothing undermines a legitimate effort more than using bad language. |
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"Peter Duniho" wrote in
: wrote in message ... From the AOPA website: AOPA meets with FAA to work toward resolution of sport pilot medical Catch-22 AOPA ought to go and actually read "Catch-22" so that they know what the term really means. Nothing undermines a legitimate effort more than using bad language. Well, persistant incorrect use of a term eventually verify's the new definition. While the Sport Pilot medical issue is not litterally a catch-22 like in Joseph Heller’s novel, it "is" a Catch-22 as far as common use of the term. Most of the Public see's Catch-22 as "your damned if you do or your damned if you don't". You can't fight the system and the system is us! The Sport Pilot medical issue is simular for existing pilots who still HAVE current medicals, really than for any other group. If there health is at all questionable, they can choose to roll the dice on there next medical, or just let it lapse and fly a 2 seater... so there damned if they "do" go take a medical, in that they may not be able to fly again... ever. They're damned if they don't, cause they won;t get to fly that brand new SR-22 they bought a month ago..... As far as current pilots that have failed medicals, ... as of now there just damned... ;-) I'm "certain" before Jan 15th there will be a one-time "sport-pilot" medical that will probably involve more "how to recognise when you can't fly" brochures, and a really long and involved contract absolving the FAA, and the doctor of all responsibility when you go down in flames and take innocent school children with you...., then actually proving you can fly. If not, I would expect a bunch of older pilots who have lost there medical for one reason or another that most of us would think is silly, to get the ACLU or sum such as that and sue for equal protection under the law..... -- ET "A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."---- Douglas Adams |
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ET wrote: Well, persistant incorrect use of a term eventually verify's the new definition. Yep. My favorite example is the misuse of "decimate". It actually means a 10% casualty figure, but most people use it to mean near annihilation. George Patterson If you want to know God's opinion of money, just look at the people he gives it to. |
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ET wrote
Well, persistant incorrect use of a term eventually verify's the new definition. While the Sport Pilot medical issue is not litterally a catch-22 like in Joseph Heller’s novel, it "is" a Catch-22 as far as common use of the term. Most of the Public see's Catch-22 as "your damned if you do or your damned if you don't". Your persistant misuse of the apostrophe as in "verify's" and "see's" will never become common useage. I'm certainly no English major, but I believe that 60 years ago, I was taught to use the apostrophe in contractions and for expressing the posessive case of a noun. Your post is the first time that I have seen the apostrophe applied to a verb. Bob Moore |
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Bob Moore wrote in
. 168: ET wrote Well, persistant incorrect use of a term eventually verify's the new definition. While the Sport Pilot medical issue is not litterally a catch-22 like in Joseph Heller’s novel, it "is" a Catch-22 as far as common use of the term. Most of the Public see's Catch-22 as "your damned if you do or your damned if you don't". Your persistant misuse of the apostrophe as in "verify's" and "see's" will never become common useage. I'm certainly no English major, but I believe that 60 years ago, I was taught to use the apostrophe in contractions and for expressing the posessive case of a noun. Your post is the first time that I have seen the apostrophe applied to a verb. Bob Moore and correcting one's grammer on usenet is bad form's's's.... when I get a newsreader with a spell checker, perhaps I'll use it.. but until then you'll just have to suff'er funny thing is though.. I don't remember typing it that way :-) -- ET "A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."---- Douglas Adams |
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:13:07 GMT, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote: ET wrote: Well, persistant incorrect use of a term eventually verify's the new definition. Yep. My favorite example is the misuse of "decimate". It actually means a 10% casualty figure, but most people use it to mean near annihilation. George Patterson If you want to know God's opinion of money, just look at the people he gives it to. Interesting...I use that one wrong all the time! Time to find a new word. z |
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:55:55 GMT, ET wrote:
Most of the Public see's Catch-22 as "your damned if you do or your damned if you don't". Catch 22 is variously defined in the novel, but its ultimate definition is this: "They can do anything to you that you can't stop them from doing." Ford's Corollary to Catch 22 is this: "You can do anything that they can't stop you from doing." Personally, I find this a much more useful guide to life than Mr. Heller's. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Expedition sailboat charters www.expeditionsail.com |
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:55:55 GMT, ET wrote:
I'm "certain" before Jan 15th there will be a one-time "sport-pilot" medical You didn't say January 15 of which year all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Expedition sailboat charters www.expeditionsail.com |
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On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:19:27 GMT, zatatime
wrote: Interesting...I use that one wrong all the time! Time to find a new word. Don't bother. Everyone uses it wrong, despite the fact that the word practically shouts its own definition: decimate = one-tenth acted on. I haven't looked it up in the dictionary lately, but I'll bet it has a 100 percent definition in there somewhere. Here goes! Merriam-Webster's Collegiate 10th Edition: Well, it's not as bad as I thought. 3b is "to destroy a large part of." Followed by the example: "firebombs decimated large sections of the city." Have to tell you, though, as a veteran of Mr. Vaughan's sophomore Latin class, I still wince when I read phrases like that. (It would be much worse if the example had read "firebombs deciated the city.") Sorry! Pet peeve. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Expedition sailboat charters www.expeditionsail.com |
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