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  1. bbchien

    First class medical with two DUI’s

    HIMS level- 7 months + Single DUI abuse vs dependency- 210 days Single DUI no-blow ~ 90 days.
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    How to make the best pilot possible?

    The weak point Is the 250 hr. Instructor with the same hours, over and over. Glider and TW are good additions!
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    AME’s that work well with people with Special Issuances?

    Or you can send it to the unknown AME with the 12 digit code clipped off the bottom….
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    Upgrading Class 3 to Class 1: SSRI Pathway 1

    ..and I woudl say the lack of them producing a "letter of eligibilty" is just laziness. But an average AME can dope out the staus of 18(M) from the box 60 sheet that the AME can access just after he makes the exam go live.
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    GNS430W and 530W - Failing to suspend when in a hold... how to fix the result

    I prefer this one. Fewer button strokes.
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    How to make the best pilot possible?

    100% this. Select the man. "Lt, are you ready for your flight check?" "Sir, what is this thing you call ready?" "Good, see you tomorrow at 08:00. It's with the commander" PASS, or WASHOUT. 40+ years later the red checklists still are in my head. The candidate has to live eat and breathe the...
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    Piper down Louisville

    i guess all pipers are "cubs".(00:14). Nice landout in an adverse situation.
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    Class 3 with an old anxiety/depression diagnosis after talk therapy

    Anxious...if there as been no "recurrency" and no meds in the past two years, provided the AME can verify that- he can issue. This ia a summer 2024 policy change! But you need to ask what documents the AME needs to verify such, it's HIS call.
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    Upgrading Class 3 to Class 1: SSRI Pathway 1

    Charlie, if you were issued by a federal medical officer, NOT on a special, you should be FINE for a class 1.
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    AME’s that work well with people with Special Issuances?

    It's a spectrum, Jon. when it gets bad enough those are really the last of whom you want to be your surgeon, or your pilot. And that is the conundrum for FAA. I have only succeeded twice in 25 years. One went to Horizon and is now working a legacy carrier. The other flies a C182. But the...
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    KAVX - Catalina Island, twin-engine Beechcraft crash 5 dead

    Speculation: Winds, from weather underground Why would one take off in a twin maxed out (5 aboard) e.g, carry three, to Avalon, to retrieve two? Five aboard a BE 95 even with much reduced fuel is close to or overgross. Usual useful loads are ~1270 ! If it's a B55 Baron, the useful is...
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    Kidney Stone

    Nothing. WIth Basic it's between you and your Basic Med Doc. Unless you have a Neurologic, Cardiologic or psychiatric event, FAA is not involved. PS I'm amazed you manged to hold out so long. You're pretty tough.
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    KAVX - Catalina Island, twin-engine Beechcraft crash 5 dead

    Two bad decisions don't make a good decision, sadly....
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    AME Deferment Process

    YESSS! THIS!
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    What cataract eye lens type does FAA dissaprove of?

    for life....until it dislodges.
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    And so it goes..

    The theory behind coronary calcium scanning is that when small atherorma erupt and then seal over, they get calcified. But that's ony one of the pathophysiological pathways to an occlusion. That is likely why rosuvastation (which has been observed to seal one over in about 10 days) aren't...
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    AME Deferment Process

    DJ you shouldn't have to worry about that deadline, because the AME gets disciplined if he doesn't send it in by the 14th day. He'll remember.
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    And so it goes..

    Still would not. Hugh, what you are doing is eating right, not getting fat, and controlling hypertension and lipids. Now after the CT cor. angio you are doing the same thing. That's what you would do anyway. So what did you gain? If you really want to know, Stress treadmill echo to the above...
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    First class medical with Hypothyroidism?

    Yes, and so long as you do that, it's a yawn.
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