Daily Reminder: FAA doesn't care if you are dumber than a bag of rocks but if you smoked weed they will hunt you down to the ends of the earth

[AmIFed]

 

[Roller]

Weed ain’t my deal, but how would the FAA even know?

The only way they would know is if someone did something that would make a bag of rocks looks smart

Take the case of officer <82 IQ here

 

[TCABM]

Why is this even in Medical Topics?

 

[M20K]

Why is it even a topic. They're going to go after you if you are drunk, smoking weed or on any other hallucinogenic drug while flying. AS THEY SHOULD!!!

 

[Ed Haywood]

Perhaps there is a correlation between being dumb and smoking weed, ESPECIALLY when you are a pilot.

 

[Lindberg]

I'm guessing this didn't go the way you thought it would. Is the video a reenactment of your interactions with FAA aeromedical?

 

[Rcmutz]

I loved how he was turning the yoke thinking that was going to turn the plane! LOL

 

[pfarber]

Addiction is different than intelligence.

 

[Roller]

There’s also no FAA in Canada..eh

 

[AmIFed]

Is it true I can subvert the expectations of the FAA by getting a pilots license in a foreign country and then transferring it back to the USA?

 

[Lindberg]

Is it true I can subvert the expectations of the FAA by getting a pilots license in a foreign country and then transferring it back to the USA?

Why would you need to do that? Did you not break the FAA record for substance dependence SI?

 

[eman1200]

 

[nauga]

Is it true I can subvert the expectations of the FAA by getting a pilots license in a foreign country and then transferring it back to the USA?

If your problem is weed-related getting a recurring medical will still be the issue, not conversion of a foreign certificate.
As for subversion, FAFO. You'll get little if any sympathy when it goes poorly for you.

Nauga,
who is not a gardener

 

[AmIFed]

As for subversion, FAFO. You'll get little if any sympathy when it goes poorly for you.

So you are saying it's not impossible

 

[Dana]

So you are saying it's not impossible

Put down the bong and work on reading comprehension.

 

[geneseib]

FAA doesn't care if you are dumber than a bag of rocks but if you smoked weed they will hunt you down to the ends of the earth​

Knowing that, if you want to fly, you'd have to be dumber than a bag of rocks to smoke weed.

 

[AmIFed]

Why does the FAA not make people take an IQ test? The gentleman who is the subject in the aforementioned video certainly would not have passed. It begs to raise the question, are the FAA competent in doing their job of keeping the skies safe?

 

[TCABM]

Safe is such a relative word.