"gatt" wrote:
...
It's a good argument that you can't just pull over if you
think you might be having a medical problem.


I don't think it is a good argument, because in noncommercial
flight, it's gov't protecting us from ourselves. It's the same
objection many motorcyle riders have against helmets. An argument
is made there that there's a societal cost to treating avoidable
head injury, but I wonder how many pennies in our hospitalization
insurance that really is. There's exposure for passengers, but
they knowingly assume other and greater risks of flight. A pax
might even save us were we to become incapacitated and land the
plane with some help from the ground, as has actually happened. If
FAA had to make a narrative case for their rules here, I think
they'd run out of words pretty quick.

Fred F.