A snippet from another site, not that anyone in the industry didn’t know evidence based medicine and FAA based “medicine” are two very different animals


“ By the way everyone ever involved in HIMS should read the congressionally mandated study just out by Senator Jeanne Shaheen's office in NH.
It is not out in print yet but an advanced copy is available here: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/c...- ... fety-first
read the entire study carefully and you might be enlightened to just how far FAA and HIMS don't want any outside reviews of their practices.
The recommendations from the committee align current medical standards and not that of the FAA unpublished internal policies.
Check out.
Appendix C
Communications between the Committee and the FAA, HIMS,
ALPA, and Congressional Staff
as an example of the programs stonewalling techniques.
Also the incredibly low response from pilots to comment on the efficacy of HIMS was best addressed by their statement on page 5-12
"the committee never received indications that HIMS and
its administering organization, Air Line Pilots Association–International (ALPA), ever
distributed the link or sought pilot participation. …"


FAA who is unelected isn’t following our elected officials simple requests for data











Add on the FAA doesn’t follow modern evidence based medicine



Yes that was all HIMS, however there are just as many horror stories tons of other issues in aero med


Sprinkle on this report showing, in the FAAs own damn study, that using your own doc with basic and a checklist vs OKC and a AME doesn’t even make a difference in “safety”



https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files ... 202118.pdf


Think there is so much data that there is no arguing it’s high time the FAA gets out of the medical business, which they probably never really had any business in in the first place

Might be worth a call to one’s elected officials

I mostly agree with you on this one, but I think there is a better stat than comparing third class to basic med, because basic med requires that at some point the pilot had a third class (or better). So, in actuality, everyone who has basicmed was already screened for a lot of issues.

I wonder if there is a way to compare basic med to third class to sport pilot in any meaningful way. That would be a much truer test as to whether the FAA screening process provides any value.