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	What annoys me is; when I go to my bank because an error has been made on my bank
statement, the reply is: it is a computer error - bullshit, computer is a machine created by the
genius of human being and never made a mistake. Simply the programmer push the wrong
key or the program was wrong, full stop. So, what's wrong with the CAA computer program?.

	Remember, whether we like it or not in 21st century we are going to a ~globalisation’~, travel,
communication was not so easy in the past. Then the European Union and internet did not
exist (England today is a member of the EU). Now in Europe they try to do an European pilot
license like the driving license and EU passport. When I contacted Europe they said to me they
try to adapt new rules to meet the new situation as more ageing pilots are flying. But nobody mention
the 2% rule or the electrocardiogram exercise. In any case the aviation business is already an
international matter. New Zealand is not anymore an isolated country. With an overseas licence
you are not SUPPOSED TO FLY IN NEW ZEALAND because you have not passed the 2% rule,
this is the nonsense of the New Zealand pilot license in a future ~gtobaIisation~.

SO, WHAT IS THE CONCLUSION?.

	WELL - It is difficult to make a conclusion in this modern world because time changes so
fast that any bureaucracy is always behind. It is a chain reaction and I do not see for the next
50 years any solution. You can delay the progress but you cannot stop it. One more reason to
keep communication on both sides, (the CAA and business community).

	In the Bay of Plenty a 80 years old pilot owner for many years of a two seat GA homebuilt
aircraft with no record of heart desease, good blood pressure, etc., was forced to walk a few
minutes on a exercise electrocardiogram to get back his medical PPL.
	He said to me: it was pretty tough but I passed it. This was unnecessary and even ridiculous,
because as a holder of a PPL he is not a professional pilot making a living flying an aircraft.
	To my knowledge I do not know any professional pilots of 80 years old still flying and
making money. In fact this can be classified as a discrimination against older persons as a
basic human rights. YOU CANNOT GROUND A PILOT and FORCE his/her TO RUN ON A TREADMILL
MACHINE BECAUSE OF HIS AGE GROUP. There is an other way used in overseas.

	Health of course is a major concern of safety standard in aviation business, but to my
knowledge New Zealand is the only country in the western world to impose a test on an
electrocardiogram exercise after a certain age. In fact the electrocardiogram exercise could be
dangerous and if something happen? who is responsible?.

	My brother in France at 81 still flying a GA aircraft (not anymore Airbus A 300) and passes a
medical every year with no electrocardiogram exercise. For a professional it is every 6 months.

	Some points here we have to clarify: The CAA said, there is some flexibility, what kind of
flexibility? if really you are in good health because today the technology can check your heart,
you do not need to force a 70 or 80 old heart to work like a 20yr old  on a machine. Now for
professional pilot that is different. The CAA anyway has got a record of your health.
	A simple blood test, electrocardiogram, and blood pressure test is good enough and a
report from your GP to the CAA. In overseas that's the law, the privacy act does not apply in
aviation safety concern.

	In USA 3,800 pilots of 80 years still flying an increase of 73% for the last 5 years. If the
European Union adopts the European pilot license with now 25 countries and more of 400
million people in the next five or ten years~ more than 15,000 pilots over 80 will fly in Europe
without the 2% rule. The attitude for the older person must change, that includes the public too.

	When I mentioned the 1% rule on the phone in Europe the answer is; 'never heard' and