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Just to be clear, you don't need to wait for the SI to expire, just the underlying Medical (the not valid after xx/xx/xxxx date)

I was also the first for my doc. He had been doing my SCUBA/Scout/deployment physicals for years and I explained it was mostly the same, except government,

Looking for it.... not available at first glance, but I'll find it. Thanks for the point-out

Yup.

Obviously he's referring to the 16th amendment (authorized the income tax). The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

The fixable problem comes when the real doctors says you are fine, but the FAA OKC "doctors", without even an exam, say you are not. There are many real doctors working as AME and the FAA should trust them over the "doctors" in OKC. CAMI helps and should be expanded to everything not on the...

What free time? How did I ever find time to work... The first year was a bit weird, getting used to leaving my phone at home and not caring. Then it was the best. Spending more time with wife and kids. Consulting a couple days a week, my deal with my wife is I'll make enough to pay for my...

I have a bias for a Seneca for this mission. Many have FIKI and no problem with the altitude. A decent Seneca 3 fits your budget to buy. SLC is not really hard, but it is a moderately busy Class B so you'll want to be IFR and bring your A game. Don't know anything about Aspen But the...

Update here reporting on the NTSB preliminary report.: https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/02/details-of-loudoun-co-parkway-emergency-landing-outlined-in-ntsb-preliminary-report/ Although it says the prelim is out, I couldn't find it.

The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said; “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. He wasn't wrong, because you won't get anywhere unless you start the journey. So don't overthink it, just get your medical and your Private first. Later you'll need an instrument and...

I use it and it's pretty good at organizing complex questions, but not necessarily answering them. And to write simple code it's pretty helpful. It'll be interesting to see where the competition goes. ChatGPT was released well trained but then mostly stopped, Others like Grok and CoPilot were...

That was huge, but the blocked extra point was really critical as well.

The challenge for the NTSB is that things like this happen so rarely in 2 turbine engine, 2 pro-pilot planes in good weather is that every possibility is very unlikely and finding the specific cause is hard and tedious work. They are pretty good at it, but it takes time. Sometimes things in...

The FAA appropriation pre-pandemic (2019) was 16.1B, now 19.8B not counting the 5B advance appropriation from the infrastructure bill. There were 664K pilots in 2019 and 691,691 in 2022 (the latest year I can find). Additionally there are actually 80,000 less pilots for Med with BasicMed. I...

The FAA doesn't accept any type of spectrum If you are ever in your life with it you are grounded. You can test with their captive psychiatrist against their home-brew baseline and if you are in the bottom 15% you have it and can't fly and if you are it above it you don't have it, get the SI...

Interesting article. The title is click-bait though, the article barely touched on the wrecks and was a many-word description of EAB in general. Glad they talked to Ron and not the lady who bought a house by the airport and now wants to stop the airplanes.

Find an instructor and go fly for a couple flights. Ultimately the AME will decide whether to issue or defer, but knowing the level of ability and articulating it should be useful. For you and the AME.

To me it's mostly not about Baker per se, but about AOPA's "go-along-get-along" attitude. Of course, as the leader, much of that stink lands a bit on him. We don't need a leader who fights every single battle, but we do need one with a spine who will fight the big ones. For example: MOSAIC is...

I don't care about the salary (It's market rate for that level), and I really don't care that an aviation organization has planes (Really?). And YES, the CEO of Ford should be driving a Ford Raptor. IMHO, Baker has done mostly OK. He's leaving it in better shape than he found it. Fuller was a...

Let's go with upgraded.