Privacy: Basic Med vs Class 3

NoHeat

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A search of the FAA airman registry takes only seconds, and when I searched today for myself I saw that the format has been updated. It now has a field where my Basic Med status can be reported, even though I have none.

Medical Infomation:
Medical Class: Third Medical Date: 6/2016
MUST HAVE AVAILABLE GLASSES FOR NEAR VISION.
BasicMed Course Date: None BasicMed CMEC Date: None​

Note that my need for reading glasses is made public by the FAA, in connection with my Class 3 certificate. It has never seemed right that the FAA reports my private medical issue to the public, but it does. It's not just to me, but all of us, that the FAA blabs about.

I'm wondering if this lack of privacy we get from Class 3 is improved upon, just slightly, if we opt for Basic Med -- if I opt for Basic Med, the FAA won't know about my vision, so it can't tell the world -- is that so?
 
Where do I go to find that search feature?
 
Neat! Now what is a CMEC date?

Medical Infomation:
Medical Class: Third Medical Date: 4/2007
BasicMed Course Date: 7/5/2017 BasicMed CMEC Date: 7/14/2017
 
SkyHog said:
Neat! Now what is a CMEC date?

Medical Infomation:
Medical Class: Third Medical Date: 4/2007
BasicMed Course Date: 7/5/2017 BasicMed CMEC Date: 7/14/2017
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Comprehensive Medical Exam checklist - the actual medical exam date...
 
Your most recent medical certificate info will stay in there even after it lapses and you're flying under BasicMed, so that vision message won't go away.
 
MassPilot said:
Your most recent medical certificate info will stay in there even after it lapses and you're flying under BasicMed, so that vision message won't go away.
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Yes, you're right about that. Even after I'm long dead, it will be there as as readily available public info. I know that because I looked up Charles Lindbergh to see what kind of certificate he had, and there was his vision info.

Those who switch to Basic Med while they are young can maybe avoid that.
 
NoHeat said:
Yes, you're right about that. Even after I'm long dead, it will be there as as readily available public info. I know that because I looked up Charles Lindbergh to see what kind of certificate he had, and there was his vision info.

Those who switch to Basic Med while they are young can maybe avoid that.
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Considering that Lindbergh died in 1974, long before the internet, I thought you were joking until I looked it up, but there he is, with a last medical date of 1972. I wonder why they bothered to digitize records from that far back.
 
But no field for "Hearing augmentation required."
 
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