Someone tell me I got this wrong....

[bbchien]

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1557314#post1557314

How come this 20 something has no idea that his intent is very clearly "sneaky".....both the string title and the initial question....

...or am I out in left field.....

 

[Jim Logajan]

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1557314#post1557314

How come this 20 something has no idea that his intent is very clearly "sneaky".....both the string title and the initial question....

...or am I out in left field.....

Remember you asked... my opinion is you started too quickly out in left field - and kept playing there too long.

Seems to me that if he had planned to lie then he wouldn't have bothered to post his question. After a 7 years absence a person's recollection of the medical regs, which have evolved and will now evolve even faster, is probably sketchy.

Perhaps you've run into enough people who are looking for a way around the medical regs that you are displaying a syndrome an old cop once mentioned to me: that after spending all his working life dealing so often with the lowest of humanity, he acquired a deep distrust of everyone's motives and ethics, so became suspicious of even the most pedestrian dialog.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Bruce, I think you have seen so many folks post on various forums on how to "work the system" that you are automatically suspicious of the guys motive. Its understandable, kind of like my friend the former police detective and county's chief polygraph guy, even when he retired and became a private detective "Everyone was guilty" LOL.

I read the guy's post as just wanting to know what he was required to do not that he was seeking to pull something.

Interesting - I took so long to compose my post that I didn't see yours mentioning the same "everyone was guilty/suspect" "syndrome" I was told about.

 

[Jim Logajan]

He was asking if he could get away with a lie. Plain and simple. .

Not that plain and simple to me. Here are the facts and one conjecture that I saw:

(1) Seven years ago he was able to get a medical with the condition mentioned in his post.
(2) Therefore there seemed little question (to him) about passing the medical this time around.
(3) Hence the only thing he seemed to want to gain was getting rid of the yearly restriction and hassle.
(4) So he lays this all out on the AOPA forum, possibly thinking the rules allow an old condition to no longer be reported.

The doc was right to mention the consequences of lying - but doing so in 4 of his 5 paragraphs was a tad overkill.