LMAO. Did you bother to even read STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD?
Next, you now rely on STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD? How many times did you have to hit "next page" in the Google results to find this stunning gem? LOL
Next, did you bother to read and comprehend the basis of their rebuttal? They TOO are offering a theory, a guess, a hunch:
This is what STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD "thinks" "could" be an explanation.
Now a logical-thinking person would say the FAA would not make a decision to lower health requirements for pilots - thus putting less health pilots behind the gears of a plane full of passengers. In an environment, as
@fedderone explained, that puts more stress on the heart for those "weak of heart." That doesn't make logical sense, now does it?
"Hi, we are the FAA, and due to a shortage of pilots, we are going to have unhealthy pilots fly our planes. Thank you for understanding."
Next, STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD tries to justify the SPECIFIC changes to heart health requirements by saying "they change this guide all the time, it's normal." Yesssireeeeeee, that makes sense. They try to justify this specific change by saying change is normal.
Did STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD tell you when the last time these heart health measures were relaxed?
I'd be curious to know what if the geniuses at STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD know the answer to that?
Brilliant Flog. Brilliant. Please come back.