You are correct; he was charged with violating Title 18 United States Code, Section 1001 and pled guilty to the charge. Sentencing has been delayed. Ahh, politics.
While some may be in part on the docs- I’m willing to guess a large part of the abuse of theVA system with regard to benefits is patient driven. Not saying that the OP is the case here. But your generalization the “va docs” set this ball in motion is think is off IMO and experience.
I’ll give you an example of why the medical certification is a major joke. Atlas 3591 the Boeing 767 that crashed outside of Houston was being flown by the FO Conrad Aska. Aska had a long history of being an awful pilot including failing checkboxes yet he thought he was a great pilot. Basically he was someone that NEVER should’ve gone near a plane yet the faa gave him a first class medical certificate. The reason behind the crash was the he was such an idiot and would tend to panic at the slightest change in something that he crashed. He became incapacitated thru his sheer stupidity and probably equally low iq. So yea, if someone has something like adhd or depression There is no reason that they should automatically get denied by the faa and have to go thru a useless certification process. Or maybe the faa should just start requiring everyone that wants a medical certificate to go thru the entire nuero battery? That would’ve prevented atlas 3591 from crashing and also would cause plenty of pilots that the faa deems as fit for duty to lose their medical when realistically they have no problem flying a plane.
This is a red herring. In the OP's case, it's allegedly disabling PTSD. Maybe only 20% disabling, but that is not insignificant. And maybe I missed it among all the posts about the VA, but I don't see where the OP has said whether or not he has PTSD and what his symptoms might be. Everyone seems to be projecting their opinions of the VA onto him and assuming he doesn't actually have it.
It comes down to a decision by the taxpayers' representatives that the burden of sorting the wheat from the chaff should be born by the [prospective] airman.
They can, will, and have crosschecked. And it was a mess for those involved.
It would be difficult. Suicidal ideation can be a part of true PTSD. I don't want that person flying.
Really? You have got to be kidding. So let’s just give them a license for only single seat planes? Or make him promise to only kill himself. Or just not worry about the passengers that he would take with him.
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Does language scare you? Don't answer that, I'm being rhetorical.
At any rate, you caught me. Writings on socioeconomics and Class is my main avocational focus outside of flying, affair which I wish to pursue more actively in the near future, but which I keep very much closeted until mil retirement for reasons that are not germane to this thread. In any event, it's sometimes difficult to switch back to the "monosyllabic pilot" speak that's preferred here, while writing a scathing short essay on Neoliberalism and the systemic suppression of class struggle language in America, on the adjacent tile
Btw, there's no 'e' at the end of proletariat.
You use a lot of fancy words. Does language scare you? Don't answer that, I'm being rhetorical.
At any rate, you caught me. Writings on socioeconomics and Class is my main avocational focus outside of flying, affair which I wish to pursue more actively in the near future, but which I keep very much closeted until mil retirement for reasons that are not germane to this thread. In any event, it's sometimes difficult to switch back to the "monosyllabic pilot" speak that's preferred here, while writing a scathing short essay on Neoliberalism and the systemic suppression of class struggle language in America, on the adjacent tile
Btw, there's no 'e' at the end of proletariat.