Happy Dog wrote:
The only time there is any paperwork is if you have to violate a rule, and
then only if the FAA asks for a report.


Not quite. If there's an accident with injuries you're going to be filling out
paperwork assuming you're still alive.


recall an incident where I had a passenger pass out for well over a minute
during some very mild acro (Lazy - 8). I mentioned to an instructor that I
was preparing to declare an emergency when the guy woke up. By "emergency",
I mean the whole routine. The instructor suggested that it would be
overreacting. I still disagree.


As do I. The fellow may have been having a heart attack or a stroke... you
don't know. It's like when a family member complains about chest pain: do you
call for an ambulance or throw them in the car? Well, if they code , what are
you going to do? Watch them die? Wreck the car? Hell, no. Wait for the
ambulance ALWAYS unless somebody competent is available to tend them all the
way.

In the air, your first concern should be to get back on the ground ASAP. That
will probably require priority treatment from ATC, so declare your emergency
and get down. A loss of consciousness for more than a few seconds is very
significant... lazy eights just don't pull any Gs to speak of that would explain
it. Whoever that guy was had some significant health issues that needed
immediate assessment and treatment, even if he did come back to life after a
minute or two. He had more events in his future if he didn't get this
investigated. Loss of consciousness just isn't a normal event under those
circumstances.

As a registered nurse and pilot, I think your first impulse was correct. Your
instructor lacked either the experience or the imagination to give you good
advice on this one.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE