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The Domingo letter addresses the scenario perfectly. Domingo states specifically that the FAA would not have a basis to withdraw the Authorization because there is no reasonable basis for requiring an airman who does not hold a current special issuance medical certificate under 67.401 to...

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I corrected my post above.

What it's saying is that "If you have or develop any of these conditions, you need to have been issued at least one special issuance medical certificate in order to establish eligibility under BasicMed". The whole premise of BasicMed is to allow those with no medical certificate under Part 67...

Yes they do, but limited to certain conditions. https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airmen_certification/basic_med

From the Domingo letter - "Authorizations often have a longer duration than the associated special issuance medical certificate. These longer durations are for internal FAA administrative purposes and aid the Office of Aerospace Medicine with the processing of special issuance medical...

This should read - "But people don’t realize that some SI Authorizations have continuing requirements in order for the SI medical certificate to stay valid."

You keep saying "SI", but you're leaving out the "authorization" and "medical certificate" qualifiers. "SI" is the umbrella term that encompasses both. This creates confusion because of the SI Authorization and SI medical certificat being two separate documents, and these two documents have...

Scenario: You're issued a Special Issuance Authorization with a Special Issuance Medical Certificate. Immediately after issue, you get on Basic Med. In this scenario, you have BOTH a Part 67 airman medical certificate AND Basic Med (Part 68). As long as your Part 67 medical certificate is...

Read the Domingo letter straight from the FAA legal team. It specifically states that the airman is only obligated to comply with the special issuance while they hold a valid special issuance medical certificate. If their most recent medical certificate is expired, their most recent MedXpress...

While on the surface, Basic Med appears to be a great start, I also feel it's part of the problem. Hear me out. Congress passes Basic Med. If you've held a medical certificate, be it a standard or a special issuance, on or after July 14th, 2006, and your most recent certificate was never...

Appeal to extremes...nice. To answer your question, the answer isn't to "do nothing". All I am saying is that what they ARE doing isn't the answer either. The entire system needs to be reworked and rebuilt.

AAM-300 focuses on “history” and while that would help weed out some future cases, they make almost no attempt to weed out future cases. Since pilots “fear” AAM-300 and their prehistoric opinions and procedures, pilots are hesitant to seek medical care when ill. Would the pilot of Delta 3343 in...

I think the secrecy of it all (keeping airmen in the dark) is all a part of their strategy tbh. This assumes that the FAA actually cares and wants you to fly. The FAA wonders why airmen aren't always truthful with them. Their process, lack of compassion, and their "We have something you want"...

As I understand it, 3rd class HIMS deferrals don't go to DC. Can someone either confirm or deny this?

If I were to guess, I'd say that going through an HMO leaves a traceable account of the exam. As the FAA has been known to violate HIPAA laws and search for information they're not supposed to search for... While the law is the law, the regs are the regs, the FAA, along with other federal...

Hi Dr Bruce. Currently, I report to my AME every 3 months, and he reports to the FAA every 6 months. Updated testing results are typically sent in with his 6 month reports I do believe. As for the AA involvement, my fellowship just re-elected their meeting secretaries last week. I was...

In his Opinion Summary for Alcohol Dependence - "It is my opinion that the Airman is in good recovery. I see no significant aeromedical matters of a psychiatric nature. However, it is my opinion that ongoing alcohol monitoring should be continued." At the time of the HIMS psychiatrist...

So I did my last MedXpress application + physical in August 2022. The FAA requested reports from my counselor and my peer support group sponsor, which I plan to submit in a couple of weeks. I'm over 40, and this is a first/initial application for HIMS 3rd Class SI (2 DUI's greater than 15 years...

Something tells me it was the arrest that got him. They didn't care WHY he was arrested. They didn't care that they had to in order to draw blood, which was his legal choice. All the FAA sees is the arrest itself.