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slyck(at)frontiernet.net
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 Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: sport pilot medical dilemma- failed cl 3= never fly sp (dr |
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never confuse passing a flight physical with being healthy.
BB
On 26, Dec 2008, at 11:25 PM, lucien wrote:
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by0ung(at)brigham.net wrote:
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> Lets try this route just for fun…
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> Go and see a doctor ( who gives aviation physicals) and get a
> physical… not a flight physical… just an every day good
> health physical…. When you are finished,,, ask if he thinks
> you would pass a class 3 medical,,, if he says yes, fill out the
> paperwork,,,, if he says no,,,, physical over. This way you
> have not failed an aviation medical…..
> Boyd Young
> KOLB MKIII C
> Utah
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My .02,
Keep your AME and your regular doc separate folks wherever
possible. Dunno the legality of it all, but there's an inherent
conflict of interest in the two roles of managing your health and
the regulatory one of screening for a flight medical.
Once the doc knows about a condition, (s)he knows so when it comes
to the actual exam, well.......
When I got sick the last time, I voluntarily grounded myself and
went to a specialist. To **** with the medical at that point, my
health comes first. I let my medical expire in the meantime, but I
wasn't healthy enough to resume flying until a while after that.
Never went back to get it, too much paperwork involved and I still
have things here and there going on that are disqualifying.
But when I need to go to the doctor, I need to feel free to be
honest with them and tell them what's up. So I'd never use my AME
for that.....
JMHO,
LS
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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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| Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:01 am Post subject: sport pilot medical dilemma- failed cl 3= never fly sp (dr |
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Many Drs really don't understand what a mess you'd be in if you failed a
physical. �You must beat it into their heads that you MUST NOT fail a
physical at �least �ion the FAA forms.>>
What an odd attitude. None of that is the doctors concern. All he does is
ensure that you conform to the criterion laid down by the appropriate
authority. If you dont qualify that is your concern not his. Would you
want a commercial pilot flying you who has faulty eyesight but got the OK
because he explained to the doctor that he wouild be out of a job if he
failed?
Same apples
Cheers
Pat
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lucien
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| Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:23 am Post subject: Re: sport pilot medical dilemma- failed cl 3= never fly sp ( |
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[quote="slyck(at)frontiernet.net"]never confuse passing a flight physical with being healthy.
BB
On 26, Dec 2008, at 11:25 PM, lucien wrote:
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Exactly - if you have a disqualifying condition _go get it treated_. To heck with the medical. This is is how I think about this issue (YMMV and just MHO):
- if it's on the list of things that are disqualifying, even if I think it's stupid, the chances are it could be a safety issue. It's like AC 43.13 - most of the construction/inspection techniques for airplanes are in there because some poor sot flew an airplane into the ground. I'd be willing to bet many of the disqualifying medical conditions have similar roots.
- There are other ways to get off the ground once you've gotten your health back regardless of whether FnAA still wants you on the ground or not. In fact, these choices (sport pilot, sailplanes) are better in that the responsibility for medical cert. rests on the individual much moreso, which is where that responsibility should be IMO.
- regardless, we fly for fun and it's no fun, in my experience, flying when you're in poor health. What's the point? When I got sick in 2000, I grounded myself for almost a year. Hardly missed it, tho, because I wasn't in any condition to enjoy it anyway. That still holds true today - if I'm not physically up to it I don't go up. I'm nursing a lower back injury right now as I type and not flying because of it. Even flying ain't no fun with a sledgehammer lodged in one's coccyx anyway  .
So my view is health first, then flying afterwards......
Again, the usual disclaimers: YMMV and JMHO,
LS
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