"George Patterson" wrote

Completely immaterial. The only important question is how many of these
incidents were caused by medical conditions that would have been caught
during a
typical FAA exam. Many of these incidents would have been prevented if
drivers
had to go through the same procedure.

This could be argued adnauseum (is that a word?) with no answers.

The proof (one way or another) will be the statistics gathered after a few
years of the sport pilot program. The results could very well result in
changes in the current system of PPL medicals, or show reasons for keeping
the system in place for many years to come.

Of course, even if data has been collected showing no significant change in
the medically caused accident rate, many will say there is not proof of a
reason to change anything.

'Twill be interesting times to come.
--
Jim in NC