"Tony Verhulst" wrote in message
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Regrettably all a current medical certificate is useful for is knowing
that the recipient WAS fit to fly at the time that they took the medical.
Half an hour later, who knows.

It's actually a little better than that. Since you must report all
medications you are taking, the medical examiner can assess if one, or a
combination of several medications, might impair your coordination and/or
judgment which could affect your ability to act as PIC (or to drive a car
for that matter).

On the other hand, the AOPA is fond of (correctly) reporting that there is
no statistical correlation between a pilot having a medical certificate
and accidents due to medical causes.

Tony V. LS6-b "6N"

My dad passed his 3rd class medical in the morning. Went out to the airport
to test fly an airplane he was thinking of buying. Then passed out in mens
room at the FBO from some complication from his (up to then) undetected
prostate cancer (It was never clear to me excatly why he passed out...)

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