JS> >  I don't know the details of that incident, but the status of a
 JS> medical >  has absolutely nothing to do with experience.
 JS>  The experience is:  If you do not have a valid medical, you
 JS>  are grounded until you get one. That is the EXPERIENCE part.
 Oh, BS, Jim.  Bob Hoover lost his medical for nefarious reasons.
 Do you somehow imagine he also lost his *experience*????
 JS>  He knew this but did not obey the rules... We might not
 JS>  AGREE with rules or regulations, but we must obey them.
 JS>  Or get them changed by LEGAL means...
Two totally different things.  Abiding by rules has nothing, zero,
nada, zip to do with past experience.  It happens I do not have a
current medical because I've been too occupied by other matters,
but I have sufficient experience that I would have no qualms (aside
from the minor legal consideration) about hopping into any of about
300 or more different types of aircraft and making a safe and suc-
cessful flight, if the occasion should arise.
... Don't take life seriously, it isn't permanent.
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