Soaring on unapproved prescription drugs, and conditions, legal??

At 17:18 17 June 2004, Tony Verhulst wrote:
Nyal Williams wrote:
I will not fly a glider while using medication
that the FAA finds deleterious to the operation of
a C-172. It is just common sense.


It's not common sense bcause, as Rich pointed out,
the decision as to
what medication is 'deleterious to the operation of
a C-172' is
sometimes more political than medical.

Tony V.


Tony, I never meant to say the medical decision was
common sense; as was correctly pointed out, regulations
can never keep up with medical research.

The common sense part is not to accept a risk that
some attorney will read the PDR to an ignorant jury
and persuade the jury to convict me of gross negligence.
Have an accident and let the NTSB find traces of medication
in your blood that are not proscribed for gliders,
but are so for C-172s, and that jury will nail you.
Because of the PDR and the disclaimers and side effects
descriptions that come with all medications -- OTC
or otherwise. 'You should have known, you with your
expensive toys, flaunting them over a poor, unsuspecting
public.'