Your tax dollars at work. Incredible. Wait until they look at Sport Pilot. I’m Basic Med now but from 2005 until 2017 I was Sport Pilot. When I didn’t renew my medical in 2005, FAA had no idea if I gave up flying, died or was flying 200 hours a year in my Legend Cub. They also had no idea if I had a Valid Driver License or if I had it suspended or revoked.
I read the NTSB accident reports weekly. I see no trend in accidents by Basic Med regardless of the cause. I see a few where the pilot who held a valid FAA medical had a level of drugs in their system that would have knocked out Sea Biscuit.
Rich
You guys need to read the paper. The FAA isn’t the author or the enemy. I found the IG comments interesting in that they’re more about government control than flying. The part about the FAA’s inability to prevent an unqualified pilot from flying was curious. So was the part about a pilot can go fly the minute he passes the online course. Whoever wrote it doesn’t know much about the aeromedical process or BasicMed.