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Jeez...you've spent the money, spent the time, you've got the training.....get the rating. You don't have to ever use it.

The FAA's Wings Courses as part of their FAAST program are pretty good. You can go here and sign up. https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_catalog.aspx#catalog . They have a Flight Review Course. Also, from Sporty's, you can take their Flight Review Course ($$) and actually get a...

I've been where you are. Recently. When I'd stopped flying, GPS had barely been invented...was not a part of aviation at all. Google "rusty pilot" .....There are "rusty pilot" courses, videos, tutorials all over the internet. I used them all, took a ton of notes....breezed through the oral...

I used Word, printed it double-sided on half-sheets and took it to Office Max to get laminated. Turned out great.

You are obviously not new here....

Less than 10 mph over and an otherwise clean driving record....very unusual IME that that driver would get a ticket. I would not be quite so quick to discount the "dick" label.

I would note that, at age 21, an “official blood alcohol” of .202 on one occasion and a diagnosis of alcoholic pancreatitis on another are both big warning flags and tend to indicate a serious drinking problem. You may have a hard time convincing the FAA that it was an inadvertent omission. For...

OP....consider investigating Experimental vs Certified....see whether or not there's an E-AB that fits your mission...

Seems logical to me that one would handle an audiology visit and hearing aid the same way they'd handle their last visit to the optometrist to get their eyeglass prescription updated for new glasses.

Your use of common sense and lack of tendency toward hysteria is not in keeping with the general thrust of this thread.

So...when you're getting blasted by some pilot at the runup area...is it taboo at some airports to call the offender on CTAF and ask him to please point his airplane in a different direction? Maybe he's just not aware and would be happy to comply, horrified to learn that he's committed such a...

Heh heh...Karens.

According to Dr. Chien, that workup is likely to be a shorter and more likely path to an FAA 3rd class medical. Health implications aside (or lack thereof), his expertise in the arcane ways of the FAA medical branch is well known. If you're going to play their game (flying), you'll have to do so...

As long as I remember to get the hook down, it's all good.

I fly an RV and make that approach routinely, although I've always called it a crosswind-for-downwind-from-midfield". I'm going to start announcing it as an "overhead break" just as I put the hook down.

I would have said something on CTAF and asked him to move away or point a different direction. If he responded huffily, I'd invite him to a conversation later, and I'd offer to bring the beer. I wouldn't go to his hangar after-the-fact, days or weeks later, and say "say...you remember the other...

I agree. One more reason to hate the ACA, as if another reason was needed. But, "we had to pass it to find out what was in it". As to increased mortality in IVCD, my recollection is that that's only true if it is a LBBB. Presumably, the OP didn't have a LBBB when previously tested. I...

The OP was apparently worked up for that and was diagnosed as "normal variant". Sounds like it was determined NOT to be "heart disease". I'm curious about this "diagnosis code database" that you mention, the mechanics of it. Are you saying that there's a central registry of diagnoses available...

Your workup was normal right? What are you going to report? Why would you even mention it?

If FAINTING (vasovagal syncope) twice in your life, most recently more than 12 years ago is something that is cause for special concern by the FAA then "overkill" doesn't begin to describe it. I would say "absurd" bordering on "ridiculous" and it's a great example of how crazy the FAA medical...