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Mxsmanic wrote:
Gig 601Xl Builder writes: Can you cite one single case where that has ever happened to an AME? The average doctor can expect about one malpractice suit in his career, and AMEs are not immune. You twit, I didn't think you had anything to back up your comment. |
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In rec.aviation.owning Nomen Nescio wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: Mxsmanic If the smoking or drinking were to eventually cause a problem that could become incapacitating, and that takes lots of years, the problem would would be cause to fail the medical. Both can be immediately incapacitating. So can acting like an asshole. I'm trying to envision all those people taking a hit off a Marlboro and immediately keeling over... -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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Nomen Nescio wrote:
From: Mxsmanic If the smoking or drinking were to eventually cause a problem that could become incapacitating, and that takes lots of years, the problem would would be cause to fail the medical. Both can be immediately incapacitating. So can acting like an asshole. It's not an act. It's all he has. |
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In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic wrote:
writes: As for smoking, that is utter, pulled out of your ass, nonsense. Not when the air is thin. More ignorant nonsense; if it were true about half the population of Peru would be incapacitated. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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wrote in message
... ... I'm trying to envision all those people taking a hit off a Marlboro and immediately keeling over... Well, a lot of people do keel over while exercising. But I've never heard of anyone having heart attack while reaching for another donut. Should the FAA disqualify anyone who has a membership at a gym? -- Geoff The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate. |
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
... ... What I'm saying doesn't conflict with the Pass= fly regardless of age. It simply RECOGNIZES that at a certain point while following the "plan", a pilot WILL reach a specific point in time where the medical can no longer be passed. In other words, Fail= no longer fly. 'cepen now there is the "let it expire and be a sport pilot" option. Or, the "never did need a medical" glider option if you don't like some of the sport pilot limitations (you are still stuck with 2 place). Some "self launch gliders" will run circles around what a number of people here fly as SEL... How about 140 knots at altitude from a turbo Rotax http://www.stemmewest.com/pages/S10_E.pdf ? (All this assuming, of course, that the reason for failing doesn't compromise your ability to act as PIC). -- Geoff The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate. |
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On Sep 4, 1:25*pm, wrote:
In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic wrote: writes: As for smoking, that is utter, pulled out of your ass, nonsense. Not when the air is thin. More ignorant nonsense; if it were true about half the population of Peru would be incapacitated. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. Your knowledge of this subject is so seriously limited that you really need to drop out of the discussion before you make yourself look really stupid. The people of Peru who live at high altitudes have become acclimated to the altitude and are not as subject to altitude sickness as those who live at lower altitudes. Smoking has the direct effect of diminishing the ability of the lungs to absorb oxygen which becomes especially critical at higher altitudes. Smokers who are not acclimated to the altitude and who take off from lower altitudes and asscend to altitude can easily become oxygen starved resulting in numerous possible medical problems. |
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In rec.aviation.owning BobR wrote:
On Sep 4, 1:25?pm, wrote: In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic wrote: writes: As for smoking, that is utter, pulled out of your ass, nonsense. Not when the air is thin. More ignorant nonsense; if it were true about half the population of Peru would be incapacitated. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. Your knowledge of this subject is so seriously limited that you really need to drop out of the discussion before you make yourself look really stupid. The people of Peru who live at high altitudes have become acclimated to the altitude and are not as subject to altitude sickness as those who live at lower altitudes. Smoking has the direct effect of diminishing the ability of the lungs to absorb oxygen which becomes especially critical at higher altitudes. Smokers who are not acclimated to the altitude and who take off from lower altitudes and asscend to altitude can easily become oxygen starved resulting in numerous possible medical problems. Point totally missed. 1) No one becomes "immediately incapacitated", whatever that means, from smoking. 2) If smoking were "immediately incapacitating" from an altitude change, every ski resort would be littered with bodies. 3) Everyone becomes oxygen starved as altitude increases. For the average heavy smoker that will happen at a lower altitude than for the average non-smoker. 4) Oxygen starvation doesn't result in medical problems, it causes phyisological problems that are eliminated by increased oxygen. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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5) FAA minimums on Ox usage are conservative enough to acomodate even heavy smokers. |
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