Originally Posted by
theddo
Luckily we can do away with yearly checks of their health and be satisfied when someone determines their sandwich has too many calories in it.
Hypertension is about long term health, not will they die here and now (unless it's really low or really high), but awesome to have someone so qualified go through the legal health requirements to fly and determine that they are wrong.
My aviation medical examiner was a member of the committee that created the original medical certification requirements. He thought they were pretty useless, at least for general aviation pilots.