PaulMillner
Line Up and Wait
Those of us fortunate enough to be able to use BasicMed for our flying, and thereby avoid the expense and delay of CAMI intervention, have to take the Basic Med online medical education course (OMEC) every two years. This seemed to work well, both with the AOPA course and the Mayo Clinic course... I prefer the Mayo, it seems to be laid our more logically to me.
In any case, this last time around, I noticed that the FAA's database did *not* update to indicate I'd completed the OMEC.
You can check here: https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/
I waited days, then weeks, then months... no luck. I called the FAA, the airman registry. The woman there got QUITE animated that Basic Med was *not* their problem. She finally suggested I contact the provider of the OMEC.
So I wrote basicmed@mayo.edu and Mitch Nelson wrote me back the next day. He didn't have an explanation, except that if I wasn't eligible for Basic Med (never had possessed a Third Class Medical, etc.) then the upload would fail. But obviously that didn't apply to me, since the previous three OMEC passes had been recorded. He offered to upload my successful pass again. Voila! Three days later, the database finally showed I had a valid Basic Med.
Now, I had kept the completion certificate in my logbook, in case anyone wondered... but if the FAA were looking, it would be awkward (?) to explain why the Registry showed me NOT having a valid basic med.
Anyway... check your results a few days after the quiz. If you used Mayo's OMEC, you can email Mitch at basicmed@mayo.edu. I'm sure there's someone at 800-USA-AOPA who can handle the same re-upload if their system fails for some reason.
Trust, but verify! :slight_smile: Paul
Paul
In any case, this last time around, I noticed that the FAA's database did *not* update to indicate I'd completed the OMEC.
You can check here: https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/
I waited days, then weeks, then months... no luck. I called the FAA, the airman registry. The woman there got QUITE animated that Basic Med was *not* their problem. She finally suggested I contact the provider of the OMEC.
So I wrote basicmed@mayo.edu and Mitch Nelson wrote me back the next day. He didn't have an explanation, except that if I wasn't eligible for Basic Med (never had possessed a Third Class Medical, etc.) then the upload would fail. But obviously that didn't apply to me, since the previous three OMEC passes had been recorded. He offered to upload my successful pass again. Voila! Three days later, the database finally showed I had a valid Basic Med.
Now, I had kept the completion certificate in my logbook, in case anyone wondered... but if the FAA were looking, it would be awkward (?) to explain why the Registry showed me NOT having a valid basic med.
Anyway... check your results a few days after the quiz. If you used Mayo's OMEC, you can email Mitch at basicmed@mayo.edu. I'm sure there's someone at 800-USA-AOPA who can handle the same re-upload if their system fails for some reason.
Trust, but verify! :slight_smile: Paul
Paul
